Cap badge, officer, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), 1910 (c)

Star of the Order of the Thistle with the Cross of St Andrew, with a thistle in the centre within a circlet bearing the motto, 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit' (No One Attacks Me With Impunity).

The Royal Scots was the oldest, and therefore most senior, line infantry regiment in the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I. The Regiment recruited its soldiers from Edinburgh, the Lothians and Peeblesshire.