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Regimental Badge:  (In
white metal). The Cross of St. Andrew upon a circlet inscribed King’s
Own Scottish Borderers. Within the circlet Edinburgh Castle with 3
turrets, each with flag flying to the left. Above and below the circlet,
within scrolls, the mottoes In Veritate Religionis Confido and
Nisi Dominus Frustra. Surrounding the circlet, a wreath of thistles.
The Royal Crest with St. Edward’s Crown surmounts the whole. The crest
is popularly referred to as the ‘Dog and Bonnet’.
Regimental Mottoes: In Veritate Religionis Confido, ‘I put my trust in the truth of religion’, and Nisi Dominus Frustra, ‘Without the Lord, everything is in vain’ – the motto of the City of Edinburgh. Regimental Tartans: Since 1898, the Regiment has been authorised to wear trews of Leslie tartan, the family tartan of the Earl of Leven. Pipers wear kilts of Royal Stuart tartan. Regimental Traditions: Regimental Day is Minden Day, August 1st. Prior to the Battle of Minden on this day in 1759, soldiers of the 25th Regiment of Foot plucked roses to place in their hats as a means of identification. From this came the tradition, still maintained today, of the wearing of a rose in the headdress on Minden Day. Regimental Music: The Regimental March is ‘Blue Bonnets O’er the Border, originally the march of the Scottish Borderers Militia. The Regimental Slow Marches are ‘The Garb of Auld Gaul’ (Band), and ‘The Borderers’ (Pipes and Drums). ‘ The Standards on the Braes of Mar’ is the Regimental Charge. The following are the Company Marches: ‘Buglehorn’ (A Coy.), ‘Bonnie Dundee’ (B Coy.), ‘The Mucking o’ Geordie’s Byre’ (C Coy.), ‘Hot Punch’ (D Coy.), ‘Liberton Polka’ (Support Coy.), ‘Cock o’ the North’ (HQ Coy.), ‘Caber Feidh’ (Admin. Coy.) and ‘The Barren Rocks of Aden’ (Command Coy.). Freedoms: The Regiment has been granted the Freedoms of Annandale and Eskdale, Berwickshire, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Coldstream, Dumfries, Duns, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Hawick, Jedburgh, Kelso, Kirkcudbright, Melrose, Newton Stewart, Roxburgh, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stranraer and Wigtown. Allied Regiments: 1st Battalion The Royal New Brunswick Regiment; 2nd Battalion The Royal New Brunswick Regiment; 25th/49th Battalion The Royal Queensland Regiment; 5th Battalion The Royal Malay Regiment, Witwatersrand Rifles. Bonds of Friendship: The Queen’s Regiment – now the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment; 6th Battalion 502nd United States Infantry. ...... How to join > > >
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