The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [UK]

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	1881.07.01	The Highland Light Infantry organised as a county regiment of Lanarkshire (shared with The Cameronians), encompassing some of its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions:
		1st Battalion, redesignation of 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) 2nd Battalion, redesignation of 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
	1923	The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
	1959.01.20	amalgamated with The Royal Scots Fusiliers, to form The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)


		The Highland Light Infantry, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		HLI Timeline, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		A Brief History of the Regiment (Regimental site)
		Fact File, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War)
		Lineage and History (Scottish Military Historical Society)
		The Highland Light Infantry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).
		The Highland Light Infantry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
		History 1914-1918, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		History 1939-1945, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)

	*RHQ and Depot:*
		RHQ:
		71st Regimental District at Hamilton [1881-1905]

		N Group at Edinburgh [1946-1948]
		Highland Brigade at Bridge of Don [1948-1958]
		Lowland Brigade at Melton Bridge [1958-1959]

	*Regulars:*
		1st Battalion [1881-1959]
		2nd Battalion [1881-1948]

	*Militia and Special Reserve:*
		3rd Battalion (1st Royal Lanarkshire Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953]
		4th Battalion (1st Royal Lanarkshire Regiment of Militia) [1883-1953]

	*Territorials and Volunteers:*
		Territorial Battalions, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		Lineage, 1859-1908 (Scottish Military Historical Society)
		1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		3rd (The Blythswood) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		[4th VB] 9th Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifle Corps [1881-1908]
		5th (Glasgow Highland) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
		5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion [1908-1947]
		5th/6th Battalion [1947-1959]
		6th (City of Glasgow) Battalion [1908-1947]
		7th (Blythswood) Battalion [1908-1938]
		8th (Lanark) Battalion [1908-1916]
		9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion [1908-1939]
		The Glasgow Highlanders Battalion [1947-1967]

	*Hostilities-Only Units* (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
		2/5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion [1914-1918]
		5th (Reserve) (City of Glasgow) Battalion [1915-1919]
		2/6th (City of Glasgow) Battalion [1914-1918]
		6th (Reserve) (City of Glasgow) Battalion [1915-1917]
		2/7th (Blythswood) Battalion [1914-1918]
		7th (Reserve) (City of Glasgow) Battalion [1915-1916]
		2/9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion [1914-1918]
		9th (Reserve) (Glasgow Highland) Battalion [1915-1916]
		2nd Battalion, The Glasgow Highlanders [1939-1947]
		10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		10th Battalion [1939-1947]
		11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1916]
		11th Battalion [1939-1941, 1943-1947]
		12th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		12th (Home Defence) [1939-1941]
		13th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1915]
		13th (Motor) Battalion [1940-1944]
		14th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
		14th (Motor) Battalion [1940-1942, 1943-1943]
		15th (1st Glasgow) (Service) Battalion [1914-1920]
		16th (2nd Glasgow) (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) [1914-1920]
		17th (3rd Glasgow) (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
		18th (4th Glasgow) (Service) Battalion [1915-1919]
		19th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
		20th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
		21st Battalion [1917-1919]
		22nd (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
		23rd (Service) Battalion [1919-1920]
		30th Battalion [1941-1943]
		51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
		52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
		53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
		1st (Reserve) Garrison Battalion [1916-1919]


	[combined battle honours of 71st Regiment and 74th Regiment, plus:] [Gibraltar 1780-1783]¹, Carnatic², Sholinghur³, Mysore⁴, South Africa 1851-2-3⁵, Egypt 1882, Tel-El-Kebir, Modder River, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War [26 battalions]: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, St. Julien, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Amiens, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1916-18 Murman 1919, Archangel 1919 The Second World War: Withdrawal to Cherbourg, Odon, Cheux, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Falaise, Seine 1944, Aart, Nederrijn, Best, Scheldt, Lower Maas, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, Asten, Roer, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Moyland Wood, Weeze, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Dreirwalde, Aller, Uelzen, Bremen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Jebel Shiba, Barentu, Keren, Massawa, Abyssinia 1941, Gazala, Cauldron, Mersa Matruh, Fuka, North Africa 1940-42, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943, Italy 1943 '45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Adriatic, Middle East 1944 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Battalions: South Africa 1900-02 see also: The Glasgow Highlanders 1. The Castle and Key badge superscribed "Gibraltar 1780-1783" and subscribed "Montis Insignia Calpe", belatedly awarded 1908 for service of 71st Regiment. 2. awarded 1889 for service of 71st Regiment in 1780-1784. 3. awarded 1889 for service of 71st Regiment. 4. awarded 1889 for service of 71st Regiment and 74th Regiment. 5. awarded 1882 for service of 74th Regiment.


		Badges, Insignia & Colours, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)

Badges:

Badges, Insignia & Colours, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)

Uniform:

1881-1899: scarlet; facings: yellow
1899-1953: scarlet; facings: buff
1953-1959: piper green doublet; facings: buff
headdress:
tartan: Mackenzie HLI (trews, 1881-1947, kilts, 1947-1959) (pipers' kilts & plaids, pipe bags & ribbons, 1881-1959)

Uniforms, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
Notes on the Tartan of the Highland Light Infantry, by A.N.E. Browne (Scottish Military Historical Society)


	1901.09.04	F.M. HRH Arthur William Patrick, 1st Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, VD, TD
	1947.08.22	HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO


	1881	[2nd Bn:] Gen. Walter Douglas Phillips Patton-Bethune
	1881	[1st Bn:] Gen. John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple, CB [also 108th Foot]
	1901.01.29	Lt-Gen. William Kelty McLeod
	1903.12.30	Gen. Sir Henry John Thoroton Hildyard, GCB [GOC South Africa 1904-08]
	1916.07.26	Lt-Gen. Sir William Pitcairn Campbell, KCB [also 2nd Bn & 4th Bn KRRC; Hon. Col. QVR]
	1918.03.03	Lt-Gen. Sir David Henderson, KCB, KCVO, DSO
	1921.08.18	Maj-Gen. Granville George Algernon Egerton, CB
	1929.05.10	Gen. Sir Henry Sinclair (Horne), 1st Baron Horne, GCB, KCMG [also Master Gunner St. James's Park; Col. Cmdt. Royal Artillery]
	1929.12.02	Brig-Gen. Sir Alfred Granville Balfour, KBE, CB
	1936.03.15	Maj-Gen. Sir Andrew Jameson McCulloch, KBE, CB, DSO, DCM
	1946.07.14	Maj-Gen. Alexander Patrick Drummond Telfer-Smollett, CB, CBE, DSO, MC
	1954.08.13	Maj-Gen. Robert Elliott Urquhart, CB, DSO [GOC Malaya 1950-52]
	1957.12.24	Maj-Gen. Ronald Albert Bramwell Davis, CB, DSO [continued 1959 in R Highland Fus]



	Succession of Colonels, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young) Commanding Officers, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)


		Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
		VCs in the Royal Highland Fusiliers Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart.
		Boer War Honour Roll, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)
		CANLOAN Roster, Second World War, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)


	Motto:	Nemo me impune lacessit
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:
	Musicians:
	Band History, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd) Bandmasters, by Gordon Turner and Alwyn W. Turner (Droit Music Ltd)
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*


		The Highland Light Infantry of Canada	1920-1959


		[no external sites have been found]


		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Regimental site)
		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Simonides listing)
		Museum of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Glasgow (Scottish Military Historical Society listing)


	Regimental Journal:
		*The Highland Light Infantry chronicle*. Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1. (Jan. 1893)-v. 54. no. 3. (Dec. 1958). Glasgow : MacLaren & Sons: Glasgow, 1893-1958.

	Full Histories:


	Short Histories:


	Militia:


	Territorials/Volunteers:


	First World War:


	Second World War:


	Links:
		Bibliography, by Keith Petvin-Scudamore (British Light Infantry Regiments, founded by Michael S.Young)