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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 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]
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 ...
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]
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 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch.Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment (mustered 1739) and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbered 42nd, and in 1751 formally titled the 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot.
The regiment embarked for Portugal in January 1810 for service in the Peninsular War. [13] It saw action at the Battle of Bussaco in September 1810, [14] the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811 [15] and the Battle of El Bodón in September 1811, [16] before further combat at the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812, [17] the siege of Badajoz in March 1812 [18] and the Battle of ...
The 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a Highland Infantry Regiment of the Line, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with 72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders to form the Seaforth Highlanders in 1881.