Royal Regiment of Scotland - Organisation

Organisation

All battalions in the Royal Regiment of Scotland, to preserve regional ties and former regimental indentites, took the name of their former individual regiments.

• Regular battalions
  • The Royal Scots Borderers1, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
• Territorial battalions
  • 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • 51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

^1 Royal Scots Borderers is the name of the combined Royal Scots and King's Own Scottish Borderers battalion.

Under the restructuring and the end of the arms plot, each regular battalion will be given a specific operational role:

• The Royal Scots Borderers - Light Role (19 Light Brigade) - Dreghorn Barracks, Edinburgh
• The Royal Highland Fusiliers - Light Role (52 Infantry Brigade) - Glencorse Barracks, Penicuik
• The Black Watch - Light Role (19 Light Brigade) - Fort George, Inverness
• The Highlanders - Armoured infantry (7 Armoured Brigade) - St. Barbara Barracks, Fallingbostel, Germany
• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - Air Assault (16 Air Assault Brigade) - Howe Barracks, Canterbury

Due to their relatively flexible nature, the three light role battalions will rotate periodically, with either the Royal Scots Borderers or Royal Highland Fusiliers having responsibility for public duties in Edinburgh depending upon which one is under the command of 52nd Infantry Brigade at the time. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders will rotate the air assault role with two other line infantry/rifles battalions in 16th Air Assault Brigade; when it is not in this role, it will serve as a light role battalion in 52 Infantry Brigade. As an armoured unit, The Highlanders will remain in its fixed location as part of 7th Armoured Brigade in Germany. The two Territorial battalions come under the command of 51st (Scottish) Brigade, the Regional Brigade administering the TA in Scotland.

The regiment's Colonel-in-Chief is HM The Queen. The colonels-in-chief of the constituent regiments making up the new regiment have become the Royal Colonels of their representative battalions:

• 1st Battalion - HRH The Princess Royal2
• 2nd Battalion - HRH The Duke of York
• 3rd Battalion - HRH The Duke of Rothesay3
• 4th Battalion - HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
• 5th Battalion - HM The Queen
• 6th Battalion - HRH The Princess Royal
• 7th Battalion - HRH The Duke of Rothesay

^2 The King's Own Scottish Borderers, now amalgamated with the Royal Scots to form the 1st Battalion, have not had a Colonel-in-Chief since the death of Princess Alice in 2004.
^3 Duke of Rothesay takes the title of Prince of Wales whilst outside Scotland.