51st Highland Volunteers

51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Badge of the Regiment
Active1967 – Present
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeLine Infantry
RoleArmy Reserve Light Infantry
SizeBattalion
471 personnel[1]
Part of51st Infantry Brigade and Headquarters Scotland
Garrison/HQHeadquarters in Perth
Nickname(s)7 SCOTS
Motto(s)Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No One Assails Me With Impunity) (Latin)
MarchQuick - Scotland the Brave
Slow - The Garb of Auld Gaul
Commanders
Royal ColonelThe King
Colonel of
the Regiment
Major General William Euan Buchanan Loudon, CBE
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
TartanGovernment
HacklePurple

The 51st Highland Volunteers (51 HIGHLAND) is a battalion in the British Army's Army Reserve or reserve force in the Scottish Highlands, forming the 7th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, also known as 7 SCOTS. It is one of two Reserve battalions in the Royal Regiment of Scotland, along with 52nd Lowland (6 SCOTS), a similar unit located in the Scottish Lowlands.

Originally formed as the 51st Highland Volunteers in 1967, as a result of the amalgamation of Territorial Battalions within the infantry Regiments of the Highland Brigade, the name commemorated the 51st (Highland) Division of the Territorial Force, within which many of the Regiment's antecedent Territorial Battalions served during the First and Second World Wars.

  1. ^ "Army – Question for Ministry of Defence". p. 1. Retrieved 14 December 2020.