Old Travel Blog Photograph Highland Light Infantry Gailes North Ayrshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Highland Light Infantry at Gailes in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Gailes Camp was in existence by March 1916, first occupied by infantry of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. In that month the Army reorganised its officer training and the 9th and 10th Officer Training Battalions were based there. Training lasted for four and a half months and each battalion trained 400 officers, 600 after 1917, at a time. A Gailes Camp hospital is also recorded as having been in existence during the First World War. This camp was connected with Dundonald camp situated to the South. The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow Regiment, to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, which was later itself merged with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons, to form a new large regiment, the Royal Regiment of Scotland.



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