List of Battalions of the Royal Scots

List of Battalions of the Royal Scots

Regular

 * 1st Battalion - (1625-2006)
 * 2nd Battalion - (1686-1949)
 * 3rd Battalion - (1804-1817)
 * 4th Battalion - (1804-1816)

Militia and Special Reserve

 * 3rd (The Queen's Edinburgh Light Regiment) - (1881-1953)

Territorial and Volunteers

 * 1st Queen's City of Edinburgh City Rifle Volunteers - (1881-1888)
 * 1st Battalion, The Queens Rifle Volunteer Brigade - (1888-1908)
 * 2nd Edinburgh City Rifle Volunteer Corps - (1881-1888)
 * 2nd Battalion, The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade - (1888-1908)
 * 1st Middlelothian Leith Rifle Volunteer Corps - (1881-1888)
 * 3rd Battalion, The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade - (1881-1888)
 * 2nd Midlothian and Peebles-shire Rifle Volunteer Corps - (1881-1888)
 * 4th Volunteer Battalion - (1881-1888)
 * 1st Berwickshire Rifle Volunteer Corps - (1881-1887)
 * 5th Battalion, Royal Scots - (1881-1888)
 * 1st Haddington Rifle Volunteer Corps - (1881-1888)
 * 6th Volunteer Battalion - (1881-1888)
 * 1st Linlithgowshire Rifle Volunteer Corps - (1881-1888)
 * 7th Volunteer Battalion - (1881-1888)
 * 8th Volunteer Battalion - (1881-1888)
 * 9th Highlanders Volunteer Battalion - (1900-1908)
 * 4th Queen's Edinburgh Battalion - (1908-1921)
 * 4th/5th Queen's Edinburgh Battalion - (1921-1940)
 * 5th Queen's Edinburgh Battalion - (1908-1921)
 * 6th Battalion - (1908-1920)
 * 7th Battalion - (1908-1921)
 * 7th/9th Highlanders Battalion - (1921-1961)
 * 8th Battalion - (1908-1920 then 1947-1961)
 * 8th/9th Battalion - (1961-1967 then 1969-1971)
 * 9th Highlanders Battalion - (1908-1921)
 * 10th Cyclist Battalion - (1908-1920)
 * The Royal Scots and Cameronian Territorials - (1967-1969)
 * 52nd Lowland Volunteers - (1967-1999)
 * 52nd Lowland Regiment - (1999-2006)

Hostilities-Only Battalions

 * 4th Queen's Edinburgh Rifles Reserve Battalion - (1915-1919)
 * 2/4th Queen's Edinburgh Rifles Battalion - (1914-1918)
 * 5th Queen's Edinburgh Rifles Battalion - (1915-1916)
 * 2/5th Queen's Edinburgh Rifles Reserve Battalion - (1914-1915)
 * 6th Reserve Battalion - (1915-1916)
 * 2/6th Battalion - (1915)
 * 7th Reserve Battalion - (1915-1916)
 * 2/7th Reserve Battalion - (1914-1918)
 * 8th Lothians and Peebleshire Battalion - (1939-1946)
 * 8th Reserve Battalion - (1914-1916)
 * 2/8th Battalion - (1914-1917)
 * 9th Highlanders Reserve Battalion - (1915-1917)
 * 2/9th Highlanders Battalion - (1914-1918)
 * 10th Home Defense Battalion - (1939-1941)
 * 2/10th Cyclist Battalion - (1914-1917)
 * 11th Service Battalion - (1914-1919)
 * 11th Home Service Battalion - (1939-1940)
 * 12th Battalion - (1940-1942)
 * 12th Service Battalion - (1914-1919)
 * 13th Service Battalion - (1914-1919)
 * 14th Reserve Battalion - (1915)
 * 15th (1st Edinburgh) Service Battalion - (1914-1918)
 * 16th (2nd Edinburgh) Service Battalion - (1915-1918)
 * 17th Rosebery Service Battalion - (1915-1919)
 * 18th Reserve Battalion - (1915-1916)
 * 19th Labour Battalion - (1916-1917)

Other Units

 * 30th Battalion - (1941-1943)
 * 50th Service Battalion - (1940)
 * 1st Garrison Battalion - (1915-1919)
 * 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion - (1916-1917, as 1st Battalion, Royal Defence Corps On)
 * No.1 Royal Scots Independent Company - (1943-1945)
 * No.2 Royal Scots Independent Company - (1943-1945)
 * No.3 Royal Scots Independent Company - (1943-1945)