Old Travel Blog Photograph Highland Light Infantry Bogside Irvine Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Highland Light Infantry camp at Bogside by Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. The regiment was formed as part of the Childers Reforms on 1 July 1881 by the amalgamation of the 71st, Highland Light Infantry, as the 1st Battalion, and the 74th Highland Regiment of Foot, as the 2nd Battalion, as the city regiment of Glasgow, absorbing local Militia and Rifle Volunteer units. Its exact status was ambiguous: although the regiment insisted on being classified as a Highland regiment which recruited mainly from Glasgow in Lowland Scotland. The 1st Battalion landed at Marseille as part of the Sirhind Brigade in the 3rd Lahore Division in December 1914 for service on the Western Front, and saw action at the Defence of Festubert in November 1914, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, the Battle of St Julien in May 1915 and the Second Battle of Ypres later in May 1915. It then moved to Mesopotamia in December 1915 and saw action at the Siege of Kut in Spring 1916 and the Battle of Sharqat in October 1918. The 2nd Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 5th Brigade in the 2nd Division in August 1914 for service on the Western Front. It saw action at the Battle of Aisne in September 1914, the Battle of Ypres in November 1914, the Battle of Loos in October 1915, the Battle of the Somme in Summer 1916, the Battle of Arras in April 1917, the Battle of Cambrai in December 1917 and the advance to the Hindenburg Line in September 1918.



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