Talk:Royal Scots Fusiliers

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2018 Update
I'm linking to this from other pages so I've updated this and I wanted to include the changes on here (there are a lot :));

The Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot ('Mar's Grey Breeks') (1678–1695); Dates are wrong - regiments changed names with the Colonel so in 1689 it became O'Farrell's Regiment;

Stuart loyalist Charles Erskine, de jure 5th Earl of Mar; confused with his son, who in any case was a supporter of William until his death in 1702 etc;

...however, when he fled to Ireland, it opted to serve Prince William of Orange; not correct and not what Cannon says.

17:49, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Naming Conventions and Origin of Fusilier
As a former member British Army I know this is a sensitive topic :), so I'm not wedded to a specific answer but...

Naming; as explained in the article, regiments were originally named after their Colonel and names changed when they got a new one; that continued at least until 1710.

In his History, Cannon refers to North British Fusiliers or 21st, rather than Royal Scots or O'Farrell's etc - but this seems to have been a decision that kept it simple because that's not what they were listed as in Army Lists of this period.

Fusilier; Cannon states 1691 as when the regiment became O'Farrell's Fusiliers; the assumption is that it comes from fusil but Fusilier regiments all had an exploding bomb tag (like grenadiers) so it probably relates to grenades not fusil. That would seem to be confirmed by the fact only Fusilier regiments, the Grenadier Guards plus one or two others were later allowed to use the British Grenadiers.

Robinvp11 (talk) 20:08, 4 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the improvements. Dormskirk (talk) 20:28, 4 March 2018 (UTC)


 * No worries; I'm only going as far as 1713 as that's my area of focus - Wikipedia editing can be like pulling on a thread :).

Robinvp11 (talk) 07:33, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Add my photo of Churchill with entire regiment at Ploegsteert?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Churchill_and_Officers_of_6th_Royal_Scots_Fusiliers_WWI.jpg What is the source of the original that was scanned?? It would be better without the brown tinting.SovalValtos (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. I think this would be appropriate here as its focus is the regiment. The cropped version, focusing on Churchill and Sinclair, is suitable for the Churchill article. No Great Shaker (talk) 15:51, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Looks good to me. Dormskirk (talk) 16:28, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

The original in my grandfather's possession is brown tinted. Samleighton87 (talk) 19:39, 14 July 2020 (UTC)