Talk:Royal Scots

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NB: The photograph on the right hand side is probably of a civilian pipe band not of the Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Regiment of the British Army. Drummers in the Royal Scots Regiment did not wear kilts (it was Lowland regiment not a Highland regiment), the crest on the base drum is wrong (the Royal Scots badge is based on the St Andrew's Cross) and the Glengarry cap is wrong also. Compare it to a photo of the real thing here; http://www.penicuikwhatson.co.uk/royal%20scots/DSCF0035.jpg

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• While it exhaustively records the deployments of the regiment, it lacks many other details about its history. For instance: What tactics did it employ and what roles did it fill? Was it distinguished in battle? What effect did it have on history? See, for instance,
  2nd Battalion 9th Marines
  for an example of a conscise history that provides more context and detail beyond just where the unit went.
• The article needs more images. For a regiment with such a long history, illustrations, photos, and commanders' portaits should be available.
• The "Alliances" section is not explained adequately. What does it mean that thes regiment is allied with these others?
• "Battle honours" needs some cleanup, including wikilinks on the relevant battles.

Twinxor t 03:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• The discussion of the regiment's early history is very unclear. What exactly was it doing in France between 1633 and 1662? For whom was it fighting, if it was fighting.
  • The Royal Scots between 1633 and 1662 was almost part of the French Army, so fighting for France. It could be seen that the oldest infantry regiment of the British Army was at its early days, a scottish unit for French service. 90.42.226.11 (talk) 18:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's also a bit worrying that so many references occur to England. Scotland was legally a separate country until 1707 and there was great friction with England in the early years of the regiment's existence. It seems unlikely that it would have been on the "English" establishment.

Reply probably between 1625 and 1649 Charles I was king of England scotland and wales — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.158.58 (talk) 22:25, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Text: "both battalions of the regiment mutinied and were disarmed". Hardly a muntiny, as James II was the lawful King, and Willam of Orange an usurper. Luke 84.23.155.84 (talk) 20:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This statement is misleading. However meritorious the service of the regiment in Morocco, the granting of the campaign honour 'Tangier,' oft cited as an contemporaneous event, was not awarded until 1908. JF42 (talk) 17:10, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"The Royal Scots replied that they provided the guard to Pontius Pilate who, according to legend, was Scottish having been born at Fortingall."

This version bears little relation to the most commonly told accounts of how this nickname originated. See Scottish National Dictionary:

PONTIUS PILATE'S BODYGUARD, n. A jocular nickname for the Royal Scots Regiment said to have been given c.1635 during the Thirty Years' War by French troops to Hepburn's Regiment, the ancestor of the Royal Scots (see quots.).

Sc. 1851  J. Grant Memoirs, Sir J. Hepburn 236: The Regiment de Picardie treated these claims to antiquity with ridicule, as being somewhat overstrained, and gave Hepburn's corps the sobriquet of Pontius Pilate's Guard, which the Royal Scots retain at the present day.

Sc. 1918  H. Maxwell, Lowland Sc. Reg. 132: The French officers . . . gave them in derision the nickname of “Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard”, a nickname which sticks to the Royal Scots to this day. It was in one of these disputes that an officer of Hepburn's made the famous retort that the Picardy regiment must be mistaken, for had the Scots really been Pontius Pilate's Guard and done duty at the sepulchre, the Holy Body had never left it. http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/pontius_pilates_bodyguard

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On one occasion, a sharp dispute on some contested point of honour, a Scottish cavalier of Heoburn’s said, laughingly, to an officer of the regiment de Picardie – “We must be mistaken, Monsieur; for, had we really been the guards of Monsieur Pontius Pilate, and done duty at the sepulchre, the Holy Body had never left it;” implying that Scottish sentinels would not have slept on their posts, whereas those of the regiment de Picardie did.

'Memoirs and adventures of Sir John Hepburn' By James Grant, 1851 (p.236)

and:

‘...had we really been the guards of Monsieur Pontius Pilate and done duty at the Sepulchre, the Holy Body had never left it.'

'The regimental records of the Royal Scots' J.C. Leask & H.M. McCance, 1915

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