1689.03.19 The Earl of Leven's, or Edinburgh, Regiment of Foot
also known until 1751 by the names of eight other colonels
1751.07.01 25th (Edinburgh) Regiment of Foot
1782.08.31 25th (the Sussex) Regiment of Foot
1805.05.07 25th (the King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot
(named for King George III; "Sussex" title passed to 35th Foot)
1870 25th (The York) Regiment of Foot (King's Own Borderers)
1881.07.01 The York Regiment (King's Own Borderers)
reorganised with HQ at Berwick-on-Tweed, but initially without affiliated Militia and Volunteers
1881. The King's Own Borderers
1887.05.01 The King's Own Scottish Borderers
reorganised as the county regiment of Berwickshire (transferred from Royal Scots district), Dumfries-shire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire (all transferred from Royal Scots Fusiliers district), encompassing also its Militia and infantry volunteers [see below]
1899 Galloway (Kirkcudbright and Wigtown) recruiting area transferred from The Royal Scots Fusiliers
1968 absorbed south Lanarkshire recruiting area upon disbandment of The Cameronians
2006.03.28 united with The Royal Scots, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Black Watch, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), and The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to form The Royal Regiment of Scotland

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World War One: 12 Battalions
Battle Honours WW2
The Great War (12 battalions): Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Nonne Bosschen, Hill 60, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenberg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy 1917-18, Helles, Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18

WW2

The Second World War: Dunkirk 1940, Cambes, Odon, Cheux, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Esquay, Troarn, Mont Pincon, Estry, Aart, Nederrijn, Arnhem 1944, Best, Scheldt, Flushing, Venraij, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Lingen, Dreirwalde, Uelzen, Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, North Arakan, Buthidaung, Ngakyedauk Pass, Imphal, Kanglatongbi, Ukhrul, Meiktila, Irrawaddy, Kama, Burma 1943 '45

Kowang-San, Maryang-San, Korea 1951-52, Gulf 1991

4th, 5th Battalions: South Africa 1900-02

 

Regimental Museum of The Kings Own Scottish Borderers, Berwick upon Tweed (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment
1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The York Regiment (King's Own Borderers)
1881 Bengal
1881. 1st Battalion, The King's Own Borderers
1881 Bengal
1885 Meerut
1887.05.01 1st Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers
1888 Burma: Chin and Lushai expeditions
1891.02 England: Devonport
1894 York
1897 Aldershot
1899 Ireland: Dublin
1900.01 South Africa 14 Bde
1903 Ireland: Belfast
1905 England: Colchester
1906 Egypt
1911 India: Rhaniket
1912 Lucknow
1915.01 India 29 Div
915.04 Gallipoli
1916.03 France and Flanders
1919 India: Agra
1921.12 NW Frontier
1922 India
1922. Egypt
1922.09 Turkey Army of Occupation
1923.08 Scotland: Edinburgh
1927 England: Bordon 3 Bde
1931 Scotland: Fort George
1933 England: Catterick
1935 Malta
1936 Palestine
1936.12 Portsmouth
1939.09 France & Belgium 3 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK
1944.06 NW Europe
1946 Palestine
1948.05 UK
1949.06 Hong Kong 28 Bde
1951.04 Korea 28 Commonwealth Bde
1952.08 ?
1952.12 Northern Ireland
1955.08 Malaya: Singapore
1955.09 Malaya
1957? Malaya 1 Fed Bde, 1 Fed Div
1957.06 ?
1957.12 Malaya
1858.08 at sea
1958.09 Scotland: Edinburgh
1959.02 Berlin
1961 UK
1962 at sea ship: Oxfordshire
1962.02 Aden
1964.02 UK
1964.04 (Aden)
1964.07 England: Folkestone
1965 Hong Kong
Singapore
Sarawak
1967.06 Germany: Osnabrück
1971.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1970.05 (Northern Ireland)
1970.09 Scotland: Edinburgh
1971.07 (Northern Ireland)
1971.08 Scotland: Edinburgh
1971.12 (Northern Ireland)
1972.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1972.11 (Northern Ireland)
1973.03 Scotland: Edinburgh
1973.04 Germany: Berlin Berlin Bde
1975.05 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1976.11 Germany: Osnabrück 12 Mech Bde
1977.11 Germany: Osnabrück 5 Field Force
1979.06 (Northern Ireland)
1979.10 Germany: Osnabrück 5 Field Force
1981 England: Catterick 5 Field Force
1982.01 Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1984.02 Colchester 19 Inf Bde
1985.03 (Northern Ireland)
1985.08 Colchester 19 Inf Bde
1986.02 (Northern Ireland)
1986.04 Colchester 19 Inf Bde
1987.02 Scotland: Edinburgh
1989.10 (Northern Ireland)
1990.03 Scotland: Edinburgh
1991 (Persian Gulf)
1991 Scotland: Edinburgh
1992.04 Northern Ireland Bessbrook Military 42 Bde
1995.01 Scotland: Edinburgh
1998.01 Cyprus
2001.04 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
2001.09 (Northern Ireland)
2002.03 England: Catterick
2003.07 (Iraq) 19 Mech Bde
2003.10 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
2004.01 Northern Ireland: Omagh (Lisanelly Bks) HQ NI
2006.03.28 The King's Own Scottish Borderers Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland
2006.08 Scotland
2006.08.01 amalgamated with The Royal Scots Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, to form The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

2nd Battalion

1881. 2nd Battalion, The King's Own Borderers
1881 Ireland: Fermoy
1887.05.01 2nd Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers
1885 Ireland: Dublin
1888 Egypt
1889 Sudan
1889 Egypt
1890 India: Meanmeer
<1894> Dalhousie
1895.03 Chitral expedition
1895.08 Dalhousie?
<1897> Thobba
1897.06 Tirah
1898.04 Thobba
<1899> Cawnpore
1901 Dinapore
1903 Burma: Mandalay
1905 Scotland: Glasgow
1910 Ireland: Belfast
1912 Dublin
1914.08 France and Flanders
1917.11 Italy
1918.04 France and Flanders
1919 England: Devonport
1921.01 Ireland: Bere Island
1922.02 UK
1923 Egypt
1926 Hong Kong
1930.03 India: Poona
1933 Lucknow
1937 Calcutta
1938.10 Jubbulpore
1939 India
1942.11 Burma 7 Ind Inf Div
1945 Burma
1945 India: Peshawar
1947 UK
1948.06.30
disbanded at Berwick-on-Tweed