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1998.133.022
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1998.133
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Badge, Cap
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Cap Badge - Royal Scots (Lothian Regt)
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Cap Badge - 4th and 5th Bns. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
Cap Badge - The 4th and 5th Volunteer Battalions. The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment, Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) Other Ranks glengarry badge.
Badge: The Star of the Order of the Thistle with Imperial King's Crown above the motto [Nemo me impune lacessit Latin: "Nobody harms me with impunity"] and a bugle horn below.
In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve; the regiment now had one Reserve and seven Territorial battalions.
The 1/4th and 1/7th mobilised in Edinburgh in August 1914, and were assigned to the 52nd (Lowland) Division. Whilst the division was mobilising, the 1/7th was involved in the Quintinshill rail crash, which killed 210 officers and men and wounded another 224. They fought at the Battle of Gallipoli before being moved to Egypt in 1916 and serving in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. They were sent to France in April 1918 for the Second Battle of the Somme, and remained there until the end of the war. Both battalions were reduced to a cadre in March 1919, and returned home to disband in May.
The 1/5th mobilised in Edinburgh in August 1914, and were assigned to the 29th Division. They fought at the Battle of Gallipoli, then to France via Egypt, and saw action on the first day on the Somme. The 1/6th had mobilised at the same time and been dispatched to Egypt in 1915 for the Western Frontier Force; it too was withdrawn to France for the Somme. The two heavily depleted battalions were amalgamated in July 1916, and spent the remainder of war on the Western Front as the 5/6th. After the war, it remained in Belgium until January 1919 when it moved into Germany, and was reduced to a cadre in October 1919 and sent home to be disbanded.

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