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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.
1st Battalion, Glasgow Highlanders, Highland Light Infantry (1949–1959) 11th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (1947–1967) 4th/7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (1947–1961) 5th/6th (Banff, Buchan and Donside) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (1947–1961) London Scottish, Gordon Highlanders (1947–1967) 3rd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (1961 ...
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
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]
There was a Highland Brigade operating in Egypt from 1882, during the Egyptian Rebellion (1882–1885), under the command of Major General Archibald Alison.Major General Alison's Brigade formed the left wing of General Sir Garnet Wolseley's army at the Battle of Tel-El-Kebir where they suffered 243 casualties (from the total casualties for Wolsey's force of 339).
On the night of 15 September a party from 15th Recce Rgt guided 2nd Gordon Highlanders to the lock gates 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the destroyed bridge at Donck, where they attempted to create a second bridgehead, but were pinned down by machine gun fire. On 17 September C Sqn took over guarding the canal bank in the Donck area, the assault ...
Campbell had held a commission in the old 78th, or Fraser's Highlanders during the French and Indian War. [2] Most regimental officers were commissioned in 1777, [3] but the first muster of the regiment was not held until April 1778. [4] It was inspected at Glasgow in May 1778 and sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, in August 1778. [4]
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.