(alias The King’s Own Borderers, 25th Regiment, Leven’s Regiment, The Edinburgh Regiment.) By Major C. G. Wood. On March 19, 1689, Leven’s Regiment was formed in a great hurry to protect Edinburgh against Bonnie Dundee and his Highland army. This set something of a recruiting record in that 800 men […]
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An unforgettable trip to find out more about WW1 hero, Piper Daniel Laidlaw VC
By Brian Laidlaw, US Border Patrol During my junior year of high school (about 1991), in Elkhart, Indiana, I began wondering, ‘where is the name Laidlaw from?’ I asked my dad to which he simply replied ‘Scotland’. I do not remember anyone in my family really talking about the genealogy, […]