Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 July 2002. Corrected and updated 03.04.2005
1st Battalion,
75th Highlanders
1787-1881
1st Battalion,
The Gordon Highlanders
1881-1994
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
   
  1787.10.12 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot
raised in Scotland
  1787 Scotland
  1788 India
  1789.12 Mysore war
  1792.02 India
  1799.03 Mysore war
  1799.05 India
  1803 Mahratta war
  1805 India
  1807 Scotland
  1809.04.07 75th Regiment of Foot
  1810 Ireland
  1810 England
  1811 Channel Islands: Jersey
  1811 Sicily
  1814 Ionian Islands
  1821 Gibraltar
  1823 England
  1824 Ireland
  1830 England
  1830 Cape of Good Hope
  1834.12 Kaffir war
  1835.09 Cape of Good Hope
  1843 England
  1844 Wales
  1845 Ireland
  1849 India
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1858 India
  1862 England
  1862.11.06 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
  1866 Ireland
  1867 Gibraltar
  1868 Hong Kong
  1869 Singapore (half bn)
  1870 Cape & Natal
  1875 Ireland
  1877 Channel Islands
  1878 England
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
1881 Malta
  1882 Egypt
  1882 Egypt
  1884 Sudan  
  1885 Malta
  1888 Ceylon
  <1894> India: Subathu
  1895.03 Chitral expedition
  1895.08 Subathu?
  <1897> Gharial
  1897.06 Tirah
  1898.04 Gharial  
  1898 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1899.12 South Africa 19 Bde
  1902 Scotland: Glasgow
  1904 Ireland: Cork
  1909 England: Colchester
  1913 Plymouth
  1914.08 France and Flanders 3 Div
  1919 Germany Army of Occupation
  1920.01 Turkey Army of Occupation
  1921 Malta
  1924 Egypt
  1925 India: Poona
  1927 Delhi
  1930 Landi Kotal
  1933 NW Frontier
  1934 Palestine
  1935 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1938 England: Aldershot 2 Bde
  1939.09 France & Belgium 1 Inf Div, BEF
  1940.03 France & Belgium 51 Inf Div, BEF
  1940.06 captured by the Germans at St. Valery
  1940.09 re-formed in UK by redesignation of 9th Battalion
  1940.09 UK 51 Inf Div
1942.08 Middle East
1943.07 Sicily 153 Bde, 51 Inf Div
  1943.09 Italy
  1944.01 UK
  1944.06 NW Europe
  1945 Germany
  1948.07.12 amalgamated at Essen with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1948 Germany 2 Div, BAOR
1949.05 Berlin
1950.12 UK?
1951.04? Malaya: Singapore
  1951.05 Malaya 63 Gurkha Bde, South Malaya Dist
  1952.09 Malaya 63 Gurkha Bde, 17 Gurkha Div
  1954.03 at sea
1954.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1955.10 Cyprus
1956.12 Scotland: Edinburgh
1958 Germany: Celle 7 Armd Bde
1962.01 Kenya 24 Inf Bde
1963.06 [Swaziland]
1963.08 Kenya 24 Inf Bde
  1964.01.24 Kenya (2 coys; 2 coys already gone home) 24 Inf Bde
1964.01 Scotland: Edinburgh
1965.01 Borneo
  1965.10 Sarawak  
1966.02 England: Colchester 19 Bde
1967.09 Germany: Minden 11 Bde
1969.11 England: Aldershot?
1972.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1979.05 (Northern Ireland)
1972.09 Edinburgh
1973.03 (Northern Ireland)
1973.07 Scotland: Edinburgh
1973.12 Singapore 28 Inf Bde
1975.12 Edinburgh?
1976.11 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1978.05 England: Chester 42 Bde
1979.08 (Northern Ireland)
1979.12 England: Chester 42 Bde
1980.03 Scotland: Edinburgh
1981 [Belize 1981]
1981 Scotland: Edinburgh
1984.10 Germany: Hemer 6 Airmobile Bde [airmobile bn]
1985.02 (Northern Ireland)
1985.06 Germany: Hemer 6 Airmobile Bde [airmobile bn]
1990.01 Scotland: Fort George
1990.07 (Northern Ireland)
1990.12 Scotland: Fort George
  1991.06 Germany: Berlin Berlin Bde
1994.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
  1994.09.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons), to form 1st Bn, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)