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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.
8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) 9th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (became divisional pioneer battalion in left on 12 January 1915) 10th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (merged with 8th Battalion May 1916) 7th (Service) Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (joined January 1915 left, June 1918)
Column of the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders marching to the trenches along the Becordel–Fricourt road, France, October 1916. The 7th Division was a Regular Army formation that was formed in September 1914 by combining units returning from garrison outposts in the British Empire at the outbreak of the First World War the previous month.
In the Battle of Loos, notable for being the first battle in which British forces used poison gas, the 9th (Scottish) Division assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the 5th Camerons suffered horrific casualties, and Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock gained a Victoria Cross for his actions.
20th Brigade assembled at Lyndhurst, Hampshire, forming part of 7th Division, which was otherwise composed of Regular battalions brought back from various overseas stations. 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders returned from Cairo to complete 20th Bde just before the division sailed from Southampton. [20] [22] [21] [28]
2nd Gordon Highlanders John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld DSO ( English: / ˈ ɛ v ʌ l ɪ n ˈ s t æ n s f iː l d / ; 20 April 1880 – 28 September 1915) was a British army officer involved in the Relief of Ladysmith , the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer War and the First Battle of Ypres .
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The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that served during the Second World War.It was raised on 2 September 1939, the day before war was declared, as part of the Territorial Army (TA) and served in the United Kingdom and later North-West Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.