Tayforth UOTC

[2] Tayforth is descended from a militia formed from the time of Charles II and the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745.

[2] In 1881 Professor Peter Redford Scott Lang formed the St Andrews University Volunteer Battery of Artillery, named the Anstruther No 7 Battery of the 1st Fife Brigade of Garrison Artillery, although made up entirely of university students and staff.

Sadly 78 members of the corps lost their lives, their names are remembered on a memorial board in the A Squadron Mess.

[2] In May 1976, the Old Wyvernians formed as a non-regimental association for the former officer cadets of St Andrews University OTC.

[4] In 2024 Lady Louise Windsor, the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, attested and joined Tayforth UOTC.

St Salvator's Quad , where A Sqn. Tayforth UOTC parade on Remembrance Day