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The
Gordon Highlanders
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crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 1881.07.01 | The
Gordon Highlanders organised as the county regiment of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Shetland, encompassing its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] and uniting two regular battalions: |
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| 1916.07.07 | 14th Bn of The London Regt affiliated | |
| 1994.09.17 | amalgamated
with Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth
and Camerons), to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) |
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History
and Lineage (Scottish Military Historical Society)
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The Official Homepages Of The Gordon Highlanders, by Doug Geddes. | |
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The History of The Gordon Highlanders, by Doug Geddes. | |
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The Gordon Highlanders (Edinburgh Tattoo) | |
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Clan Gordon Online (USA) | |
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History of The Gordon Highlanders (Bydand Forever) | |
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The
Gordon Highlanders, by Dave Depickere (World War II Analyzed)
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The
Gordon Highlanders, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the
Great War)
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The
Gordon Highlanders, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918)
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| RHQ and Depot: | ||
| RHQ: Viewfield Road, Aberdeen | ||
| 75th Regimental District at Aberdeen [1881-1905] | ||
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| N Group at Edinburgh [1946-1948] | ||
| Highland Brigade at Bridge of Don [1948-1968] | ||
| Scottish Division at Edinburgh [1968-1994] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1881-1994] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1881-1948] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (Royal Aberdeenshire
Highlanders Militia) [1881-1953]
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
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Lineage,
1859-1908 (Scottish Military Historical Society)
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| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
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| 2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
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| 3rd (The Buchan) Volunteer Battalion
[1881-1908] |
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| 4th (Donside Highland) Volunteer Battalion
[1881-1908] |
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| 5th (Deeside Highland) Volunteer Battalion
[1881-1908] |
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| 6th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908]
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| 7th Volunteer Battalion [1900-1908] | ||
| 4th (The City of Aberdeen) Battalion [1908-1941] | ||
| 4th/7th Battalion [1947-1961] | ||
| 5th
(Buchan and Formartin) Battalion [1908-1921, 1939-1940]
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| 5th
(Strathbogie, Garioch and Strathdon) Battalion [1940-1941]
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| 5th/6th (Banff, Buchan and Donside) Battalion [1947-1961] | ||
| 5th/7th
(Buchan, Mar and Means) Battalion [1921-1939] |
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| 5th/9th
(Strathbogie, Garioch and Strathdon) Battalion [1941-1942]
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| 6th (The Banff and Donside) Battalion [1908-1947] | ||
| 7th
(Deeside Highland) Battalion [1908-1921] |
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| 14th County of London Regiment (London Scottish) [1916-1937] | ||
| The London Scottish [1937-1967] | ||
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3rd
Battalion [1961-1971]
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| 51st Highland Volunteers [1967-1994] | ||
| 51st Highland Regiment [1999-present] | ||
| The Shetland Companies [1908-1920] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th (The City of Aberdeen) Battalion
[1914-1915] |
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| 4th (Reserve) (The City of Aberdeen)
Battalion [1914-1919] |
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| 2/5th (Buchan and Formartin) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 5th (Reserve) (Buchan and Formartin)
Battalion [1915-1916] |
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| 5th/7th (Buchan, Mar and Mearns) Battalion [1946-1947] | ||
| 2/6th (Banff and Donside) Battalion
[1914-1915] |
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| 2/6th/7th Battalion [1915-1916?]
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| 6th (Reserve) (Banff and Donside) Battalion
[1915-1916] |
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| 2/7th (Deeside Highland) Battalion
[1914-1915] |
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| 7th (Reserve) (Deeside Highland) Battalion
[1915-1916] |
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| 7th (Mar and Mearns) Battalion [1939-1946] | ||
| 8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 8th (The City of Aberdeen) Battalion
[1939-1941] |
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| 8th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
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| 9th (Donside) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1915]
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| 10th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 11th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1920]
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| 11th Battalion [1940-1942]
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1943]
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| No. 1 (Shetland) Independent Company [1943-1945?] | ||
| No. 2 Independent Company [1943-1945?]
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| No. 3 Independent Company [1943-1945?]
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| [combined battle
honours of 75th Regiment and 92nd
Regiment, plus:]
Mysore1, South Africa 18352, Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt 1882 '84, Nile 1884-5, Chitral, Tirah, Defence of Ladysmith, Paardeberg, South Africa, 1899-1902 The Great War [21 battalions]: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle. Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18 The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, La Vie Crossing, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940, '44-45, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Mareth, Medjez Plain, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Sferro, Sicily 1943, Anzio, Rome, Italy 1944-45 4th, 6th, 7th Battalions:
South Africa
1900-02 1. awarded 1889 for
service of 75th Regiment. |
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| Badges: | The crest of the Marquess of Huntly within a wreath of Ivy, with the motto 'BYDAND' | |||||||
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| Uniform: | 1881-1953:
scarlet; facings: yellow 1953-1994: piper green doublet; facings: yellow headdress: blue glengarry, diced band tartan: No. 3 Gordon (kilts, including pipers', bagpipe covers, ribbons & cords); sporran: white hair with 2 long black tassels tie: medium pale gold withgreen/black/blue stripes |
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| 1898.06.11 | F.M. HM King Edward VII | |
| 1937.03.12 | F.M. HRH Henry William Frederick Albert, 1st Duke of Gloucester, KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO | |
| 1977.06.11 | HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, ADC | |
| 1881.07.01 | [1st Bn:] Gen. John Thomas Hill | |
| 1881.07.01 | [2nd Bn:] Gen. Mark Kerr Atherley [also 109th Foot] | |
| 1884.03.12 | [2nd Bn:] Gen. Sir John Alexander Ewart, KCB [also Wiltshire Regt, Argyll & Sutherland Hldrs] | |
| 1895.06.30 | Lt-Gen. Charles Edward Parke Gordon, CB | |
| 1897.06.28 | F.M. Sir George Stuart White, VC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO [C-in-C India; QMG 1898-99; Gov. Gibraltar 1900-05; Gov. R Hospital 1905-12; Hon. Col., 5th Bn, Som LI] | |
| 1912.06.25 | Gen. Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas, GCB [AG 1904-09, CIGS] | |
| 1914.10.26 | Gen. Sir Ian Standish Montieth Hamilton, GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD [also Col. QO Cameron Hldrs; Hon. Col. 3rd Bn Manchester Rgt, 9th Bn R Scots; QMG 1903-04, AG 1909-10; GOC MEF 1915] | |
| 1939.06.01 | Maj-Gen. Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert Burnett, Bt, CB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1948.04.01 | Col. William James Graham, MC | |
| 1958.06.14 | Brig. James Roderick (Sinclair), 19th Earl of Caithness, CVO, CBE, DSO | |
| 1965.05 | vacant | |
| 1965.09.01 | Lt-Gen. Sir George C. Gordon Lennox, KBE, CB, CVO, DSO | |
| 1978.07.01 | Lt-Gen. John Richard Alexander Macmillan, CBE | |
| 1986.07.01 | Lt-Gen. Peter Walter Graham, KCB, CBE [to 1994] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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Victoria Cross Citations, by Doug Geddes. | |
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The War Diary of 2888211 Sgt. James Simpson Robertson 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, transcribed by James Wilson Robertson | |
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World War II Memories: Harry Tapley [4th Bn], by Krista Salter | |
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The 48th Highlanders of Canada |
1904-1994
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The Toronto Scottish Regiment |
1960-1994
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5th Infantry Battalion (The Victorian Scottish Regiment) | 1930-1960 | |
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5th Battalion, The Royal Victoria Regiment | 1967-19?? | |
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5th/6th Battalion, The Royal Victoria Regiment |
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5th/7th Bn, The Royal Australian Regiment | ||
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The Queen's Own Cape Town Highlanders | 1932-1961 | |
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The Gordon Highlanders Association (Bydand Forever) | |
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Bydand Forever [1890s; California] | |
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The Gordon Highlanders of Austria | |
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Re-enactment group The 1st Gordons (Vereniging Historische Militaria, Netherlands) | |
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The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing). | |
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The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen, by Henrik Teller (SMHS listing). | |
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The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen (Museum site) | |
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The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen (Bydand Forever) | |
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The tiger and sphynx. | |
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