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The Gordon Cemetery in Mametz, Somme Soldiers of the Gordon Highlanders all fallen on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme British troops, believed to be the 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders (20th Brigade, British 7th Division) crossing no man's land near Mametz on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The Gordon Highlanders Museum is based in Aberdeen, Scotland and celebrates the story of the Gordon Highlanders regiment, which originated as the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot in 1794, merged with the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders in 1881 and was then amalgamated into a new larger unit of the British Army in 1994.
9th Bn, Gordon Highlanders – left 2 September 1940; 1st Bn, Gordon Highlanders – reformed 3 August 1940; 153rd Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company – reformed 1 September 1940, left 14 December 1940 and became B Company, 51st (Highland) Reconnaissance Battalion, 8 January 1941 [26] 5th/7th Bn Gordon Highlanders – joined 2 October 1940
On 20 September Lt-Col Grant Peterkin was transferred to a staff position with 43rd (W) Division, [27] [55] but shortly afterwards he was sent to command 1st Gordon Highlanders in 51st (Highland) Division. According to his new 2iC, Grant Peterkin was said to be 'a superman to whom Army wanted to give a few months' experience of commanding a ...
The regiment was raised in Aberdeenshire by General George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, as the 100th (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, in response to the threat posed by the French Revolution, on 10 February 1794. [2] It embarked for Gibraltar in September 1794 [3] and then moved on to Corsica in June 1795. [4]
Stirling Castle is the Regimental Headquarters of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [5] but in fact James Kennaway served with the Gordon Highlanders. Although the production was initially offered broad co-operation to film within the castle from the commanding officer there, as long as it didn't disrupt the regiment's [Argyll's] routine ...
In January 1846, the 73rd Highlanders arrived in Argentina to project British interests during the Uruguayan Civil War. [22] The regiment then sailed on to the Cape Colony to take part in the Seventh Xhosa War. [22] In 1852 a detachment from the regiment departed Simon's Town aboard the troopship HMS Birkenhead bound for Port Elizabeth.
Gordon Highlanders officers (1 C, 124 P) Gordon Highlanders soldiers (1 C, 50 P) Pages in category "Gordon Highlanders" The following 7 pages are in this category ...