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    Scottish Command or Army Headquarters Scotland (from 1972) is a command of the British Army. Great Britain was divided into military districts on the...
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    Netherlands East Indies Command (c.1946-1947) Northern Command HQ Northern Ireland Persia and Iraq Command Scottish Command South Eastern Command (1941–1944) Southern...
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    that year, he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Scottish Command where he served from 1905 to 1909 before he retired in 1912. Leach...
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    After the war he was given the Scottish Command and was Governor of Edinburgh Castle from 1945 to 1947. He commanded Far East Land Forces from 1947 to...
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    Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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    Royal Scots; the 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers; and the 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. The 45th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade...
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  • Philip Christison (category Scottish centenarians)
    (GOC-in-C) of Northern Command from 1946 to 1947; he was then GOC-in-C of Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle from 1947 to 1949 He was promoted...
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    Poland and the 52nd, based in Scotland under the command of Major-General James S. Drew, was serving in Scottish Command, alongside its second line duplicate...
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  • North Highland district (Scottish Command). South Highland district (Scottish Command). West Scotland district (Scottish Command). Edinburgh Area 1939-1941...
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    Police Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Poileas Alba), officially the Police Service of Scotland (Seirbheis Phoilis na h-Alba), is the national police force...
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    School, Fawcett Road, Portsmouth Scottish Command 1st Scottish General Hospital: Aberdeen High School for Girls 2nd Scottish General Hospital: Craigleith...
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    of the Frontiersmen Australian Division New Zealand Command NZ Command Pro Patria Scottish Command 1st Highland Brigade LOF Vols (Yeomanry) Countess Mountbatten's...
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    William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart (category Scottish representative peers)
    Greenock of Greenock in the peerage of the United Kingdom, resuming the Scottish command on his return from the front. On 1 January 1812 he was promoted to...
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  • War and was later General officer commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of Scottish Command. Derek Lang was born in Guildford, Surrey, England, on 7 October 1913...
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  • War of Scottish Independence was the first of a series of wars between English and Scottish forces. It lasted from the English invasion of Scotland in 1296...
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    For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as "council areas" (Scottish Gaelic: comhairlean), which are all governed...
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    Karađorđe's Star with swords, Kingdom of Serbia – 1918 Honorary Colonel, Scottish Command Telegraph Companies (Army Troops, Royal Engineers) – 1898 Honorary...
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  • Various other flights and minor training units. Wings No. 32 Wing – Scottish Command – Edinburgh No. 309 (Polish) Squadron RAF – Lysander – RAF Dunino No...
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    The Scottish Division was a British Army Infantry command, training and administrative apparatus designated for all Scottish line infantry units. It merged...
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    Kingdom for the next 21 months, with most of 1940 being spent in Scotland under Scottish Command, reforming in numbers and being brought up to strength with...
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    regional commands in the UK, including Aldershot Command (from 1880), Eastern Command, Northern Command, Scottish Command, Southern Command and Western...
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  • Protection Command is one of the commands within the Specialist Operations directorate of London's Metropolitan Police Service. The command specialises...
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    Headquarters Scottish Command, which had been commanded by General Andrew Thorne since 7 May 1941. One of the reasons behind Thorne's appointment to Scottish Command...
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    Shetland bus (category Military action involving Scottish islands)
    occasion visited by high-ranking officers like the Commander-in-chief, Scottish Command and the Admiral Commanding Orkney and Shetland. The most prominent...
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    The Canadian Army (French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian...
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  • Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish), commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel C.H. Innes Hopkins (formerly of the Scottish Rifles) 21st (Service) Battalion...
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    that had already been started. I Corps was under the direct command of Scottish Command of the British Army. Whilst in this area, the Corps was reorganised...
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    reconstituted in Scottish Command under Major General Henry Curtis. Curtis, the new General Officer Commanding (GOC), had commanded the division's sister...
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    instructor at the Staff College in 1938 and then became a staff officer at Scottish Command in August 1941 during the Second World War. He then became commander...
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    hold on Scottish government, requiring all civil office-holders, parliamentarians and clerics to sign the National Covenant, and giving the Scottish Parliament...
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