52nd Lowland Regiment

52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland
VI Cap Badge of The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Active	28 March 2006 – present
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Line Infantry
Role	TA Reserve Light Role
Size	One Support Company Three Rifle Companies
Part of	51 (Scottish) Brigade
Garrison/HQ	BHQ – Glasgow HQ Company – Glasgow A Company – Edinburgh B Company – Ayr C Company – Glasgow
Motto(s)	Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No One Assails Me With Impunity) (Latin)
March	Quick – Across the Lowlands Slow – Mist Covered Mountains Royal Salute – St. Andrew's Cross (Pipes and Drums) God Save the Queen (Military Band) Commanding Officer's Orders – A Man's A Man for A' That
Anniversaries	Walcheren Day (8 November)
Commanders
Commanding Officer	Lieutenant Colonel G Stimpson
Royal Colonel	HRH The Princess Royal KG LT GCVO
Honorary Colonel	Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Tartan	Government 1A Red Erskine (Pipes and Drums) Stewart (Military Band)
Hackle	Grey
Abbreviation	6 SCOTS

The 52nd Lowland Regiment (52 LOWLAND) now forms the 6th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, also known as 6 SCOTS. Due to its erstwhile association with the 1st Regiment of Foot, it is the senior Territorial line infantry battalion in the British Army. It is one of two Territorial battalions in the Royal Regiment of Scotland, along with 51st Highland (7 SCOTS), a similar unit located in the Scottish Highlands.

Originally formed as the 52nd Lowland Volunteers in 1967, as a result of the amalgamation of Territorial Battalions within the infantry Regiments of the Lowland Brigade, the name commemorated the 52nd (Lowland) Division of the Territorial Force, within which many of the Regiment's antecedent Territorial Battalions served during the First and Second World Wars.

The current Battalion traces its lineage back to the reserve Rifle Volunteer units that were originally raised in the Scottish Lowlands as part of the Victorian Volunteer Force by Lord Lieutenants in every county. These included: the Queens City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, the Midlothian Rifle Volunteers, the Haddingtonshire Rifle Volunteers, the Linlithgowshire Rifle Volunteers, the Ayrshire Rifle Volunteers, the Roxburghshire and Selkirk (The Border) Rifle Volunteers, the Berwickshire Rifle Volunteers, the Dumfriesshire Rifle Volunteers, the Galloway Rifle Volunteers, and the Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.