[1] Ultimately eleven Companies were raised throughout Galloway and their services accepted by Queen Victoria.

Maxwelltown in Dumfries was the home of the 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers, until in 1896 reforms saw the 5th KRV abolished, its members joining the Maxwelltown Volunteers regiment and the members of the former regiment's football club founding a new club in 1897.

[3] The club's sole league season was a mid-table finish in the Scottish Combination in 1907–08.

[4] A re-organisation of private militias in 1908 saw all volunteer forces in Galloway absorbed into the 5th King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment, which saw the Volunteers re-form as a new club,[5] the 5th King's Own Scottish Borderers.

After the troops returned from the First World War, the 5th KOSB joined forces with other local teams in the Dumfries area to form the current Scottish Football League side Queen of the South in 1919.