History of the Scots Guards (1946–present)

The Scots Guards are a regiment of the British Army. The regiment takes part in numerous events, most notably the Beating Retreat, Changing of the Guard, Queen's Birthday Parade, Remembrance Sunday and State Visits. The Guards' regiments ceremonial uniforms differ from each other only slightly, the differentiations being in the tunic and the type of plume on the bearskin, if any, they have. The Scots Guards uniform consists of tunic buttons in threes, the Order of the Thistle on the shoulder badge, the Thistle on the collar badge and no plume on the bearskin.

Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, the Scots Guards fought to preserve British colonialism by violently crushing pro-independence uprisings in Malaya, Ireland, Cyprus, and Uganda. In 1948 during the Malayan Emergency the Scots Guards committed the infamous Batang Kali massacre by executing the entire male population (24 innocent civilians) of a villiage near the Batang Kali river before falsely claiming that the victims were communist rebels of the Malayan National Liberation Army. The Scots Guards committed another killing of unarmed civilians, shooting dead an unarmed 18 year old boy in the back during the McBride shooting.