The Royal Scots Fusiliers had a particularly close link with this area as their training Battalion - the 3rd Battalion - was based at Fort Matilda and could be seen throughout the war training at the Battery Park, on the Esplanade and in the hills around the local towns. The men would be a constant presence in the cinemas, dance halls and other forms of entertainment in the area. There would be concerts put on by them and for them. Over the years of the war the RSF were reckoned to have trained 12 Battalions per year. The troops, once ready would have marched up to Fort Matilda station to the sounds of pipes and drums, before heading off to the Western Front.
Service men and women of Royal Scots Fusiliers
- John Bauchop
- Ernest Constable
- Hugh Duff
- James Hannigan
- Robert Kelly (RSF)
- Samuel Marks
- Henry/ Harry McGrath
- R McNicol
- Thomas Morrison
- William Roxburgh
- Robert Dunlop Swan
- Herbert James Weir
- Peter Wyse
- Frank Bigg
- Duncan Cameron
- John Elliot
- William Kelly
- E G Matthews
- Hugh B McPherson
- William Morrison
- John Sweeney(RSF)
- James Weir
- Henry O’Hare
- George Malcolm
- William Birnie
- Edward Campbell
- Robert Stobo Crawford
- Samuel Haughey
- Laurance Arthur Ker
- John McArthur (RSF)
- James McPherson
- Charles Muir
- James Semple
- James Stewart Thomson(RSF)
- Robert Black
- William Campbell
- James Howell
- David Kilpatrick
- John McBride - RSF
- Joseph Mckee
- Thomas McRobb
- J O’Donnel
- Andrew Shakevitch
- Daniel Tonner
- David Willis
- Walter Lennox Blackwood
- Robert Henderson Dickson
- Hugh Gormley
- John Hutton
- Alec Mackenzie
- Samuel Mccandlish
- George Mckeeman
- Ord Meikle
- Patrick O’Neill (RSF)
- James Tonner (RSF)
- Joseph Wilson(RSF)
- William J McWhinnie
- Matthew McQuestin
- Matthew Aitcheson
- Thomas Houston Boyle
- John Clements
- Patrick Docherty
- Percy Frederick Grant
- Robert Hutton(RSF)
- William Maddin
- Francis McConnell
- George Millar
- Samuel Owen
- John Simpson(RSF)
- Arthur Follett Walker
- James Woods
- David H Haggart
- William McLachlan Adam
- Andrew Bradley
- James Cochran
- William Dodd
- Daniel McGlynn Jackson
- Peter Maker
- John Mcleod(RSF)
- James Rafferty
- James Woods (RSF)
- William McKechnie
- James Abbott
- John William Brand
- Thomas Compston
- Alexander Donnachie (RSF)
- Nicholas Harrington Grieve
- Samuel Mark
- Thomas McGhee
- John McNaught
- George Moore (RSF)
- James Robertson (RSF)
- Hamilton Dawson Snowdon
- Alexander Lee Watson
- Percy Wykes
- Hugh Brown
- George Cooper
- William Paterson Hassan
- Thomas Mckay
- Thomas Scullion
- Patrick Ferris
- W Mckechnie
- John Wiggins
- William Crawford
- Bernard Gillan
- Robert Caullay
- James Sim
- James Mckenna
- Andrew D Gregory
- Alex Mcewan
- Edward Mooney
- Charles Sloan
- Hector Walker
- John Kelly