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Highland Light Infantry |
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The HLI
The 73rd Highlanders were raised by John MacKenzie, Lord Macleod, as the
first clan Regiment in 1777 in response to the outbreak of the American
War of Independence. In 1786 the Regiment was renumbered as the 71st
Highlanders and wore the MacKenzie tartan kilt. In 1787 war in India
necessitated the raising of more Regiments for foreign service and the
74th Highlanders were formed in that year in the City of Glasgow.
At the Cardwell reforms of 1881 the 71st and the 74th were linked as the
1st and 2nd Battalions of the Highland Light Infantry (as the
71st had been known since 1809). In 1923 the Regiment officially
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Main
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The 1/7th (Blythswood) Battalion Highland Light Infantry
recruiting at
their headquarters in Bridgeton at 92 Main Street .
This drill-hall was built in the Main Street in1902 costing £12,000.
Fabulous photo capturing the excitement of the occasion, sweethearts
and wives, smiling, excited. See the woman holding the baby in the
tartan shawl - something the Glasgow woman did right into the
1960's.
Sadly as we now know many of our brave boys never returned from
GALLIPOLI
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EGYPT -
FRANCE -
BELGIUM -
MESOPOTAMIA leaving many wives
and sweethearts broken hearted. Some of my GlesgaPals friends and
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Bridgeton, Main
Street, November 1915.
The 1/7th (Blythswood) Battalion Highland Light Infantry leaving
their headquarters.
The Battalion served with the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division at
Gallipoli and in Egypt, Palestine, France and Belgium during the First
World War. In 1920 a Celtic
cross was erected on Glasgow Green in memory of the members of the
battalion who fell in the First World War.
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lt was in 1902 that a permanent drill-hall was
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lest
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GlesgaPal Jas Turbull,
East Kilbride
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.................my Grandfather,
Robert Turnbull was born
7 Jan.1878 in Stonelaw Street, Rutherglen.
He married Agnes Gibson on 25 Dec 1908 in Bridgeton, Glasgow and they
lived at No.16 Savoy Street, Bridgeton, and had eight children.
Robert served in the HLI and fought at
Gallipoli and he very well could be in the photograph
above showing the HLI marching from their Bridgeton Barracks in
1915.
see
Turnbull website
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Robert & Agnes Turnbull
This photo of
Robert with his wife Agnes was taken during WW1 |
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Feb..2003
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GALLIPOLI
EGYPT
FRANCE
BELGIUM
MESOPOTAMIA
To the Glorious Memory
of the
Officers, NCO's and men
of the
7th (Blythswood) Battalion
THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
who fell in the
Great War 1914 - 1918
( Located in Dassie
Park, Glasgow Green )
Remembrance Nov.2006 |
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