Ceremonies to mark the creation of a single Scottish Army regiment have been held across the UK and elsewhere.

The old six infantry regiments have become battalions of the new Royal Regiment of Scotland (RRS).

Major General Euan Loudon, the General Officer commanding the Army in Scotland, led the re-badging ceremony at Edinburgh Castle.

He told onlookers that it marked the start of a new chapter in the story of the Scottish soldier.

Maj Gen Loudon said: “Change may be painful but it has come to visit us in our day and generation and it follows on from a remarkable record of service in the antecedence regiments.

“This new regiment of ours will take time to establish its own personality, but those of us who have experienced change before know that it will do so with rightly placed confidence.”

He added: “What we are not going to do, as we move forward into this new era is to create an amorphous mass, abandon the regimental system, or see these changes in terms of winners and losers.”

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