My family (Father's side) are from Edinburgh. My grandmother - Vera Taylor (née Duff) had a brother. This is my great-uncle, John Duff. Before my...
Hi, I am currently down a deep rabbit hole of what the 8th battalion Royal Scot’s did all the way from Normandy to Germany. My great uncle...
Army Number: 7542 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: George McLellan IRVING, MiD Unit: Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) London Gazette : 5 August...
Personal Number: 9982 Rank: Brigadier Name: Matthew CARR, CBE, MC, MiD Unit: Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) London Gazette : 1 January 1917...
Hi In the attached clip, besides his MC and two mentions in despatches, there is a mention of the 'Italian Medal for valour on the field'. Can...
Please could you point me in the right direction. I’m helping a friend find his biological father. We know he was in the 8th batallion Royal Scots...
Hi all New to this site so forgive me if the answers to my query are hidden away in another part of the forum. I'm looking into the service...
I have another one to ask for your collective opinions. I am trying to determine which regiment Michael Bywater McNabb was with when he was...
Is anyone able to help me?I've recently started helping some people in the Netherlands who have adopted the graves of some of the men killed in...
Hi All Looking for any info on Gunner James Feeney Philip (3053110) who was based in Aberdeen, possibly Beach Pavillion, with the 427th Battery...
Army Number: 3056933 Rank: Serjeant Name: Jack Turner NICHOLSON, DCM, MM Unit: Royal Scots & Special Boat Squadron London Gazette : 14 September...
Personal Number: 77601 Rank: Captain Name: James Alistair McGREGOR aka Alistair BEVERLEY, DSO, MC, MiD Unit: Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) & 2...
London Gazette : 8 July 1941 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35209/supplement/3885/data.pdf [ATTACH]...
Does anyone remember my uncle in the 7th 9th Royal Scots who was in service 1941 to 1946?
HI Struggling to find anything to identify which unit the following officers were with in Greece in late 44 and early 45. Been on all the usual...
Hi everyone, found your site while doing some research. I am an ex-soldier, working towards a Ph.D in modern history. To this end, I am looking...
This poem was written by my father in law while lying at night in a trench at El Alimien, C Coy 8th Royal Scots 1939 - 1945 x THE MOON Oft have...
It is with great sadness that my father in law Andrew Thomson of Thurston and a war veteran from the C "Coy" 8th Battalion of the Royal Scots...
Hello Everyone, I am a new member and am looking for any information on my Great Uncle Martin Wallace who served with the Royal Scots 8th...
Hello, I have joined this forum in order to post details of two photographs of B Company, 8th Battalion Royal Scots on "VE Day 2" 10th May 1945,...
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