St Andrew's Day

The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the first infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, having been raised in 1633. The regiment existed until 2006, when it amalgamated with the King's Own Scottish Borderers to become the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion of the newly formed Royal Regiment of Scotland.

They were known as "Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard". No one knows why, but one shaky assertion says that the Temple Guard at Jerusalem, from which Pontius Pilate selected the sentinels set to watch over the Holy Sepulchre after Jesus was laid there, was furnished by a legion of Caledonians who had been drafted into the Roman service and sent to Palestine.