The 157th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army. The brigade fought in both the First and the Second World Wars, assigned to 52nd Infantry Division.
Men of the 7th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) use a small boat to cross a canal in the town of Rheine, Germany, 3 April 1945.
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The Glasgow Highlanders was a former infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Territorial Force, later renamed the Territorial Army. The regiment eventually became a Volunteer Battalion of t
157th (Highland Light Infantry) Brigade
…9th Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifle Corps at Lanark 5th (Glasgow Highland) Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, at 81 Greendyke Street, Glasgow Bearer Company, Royal Army Medical Corps, later an Army Service Corps Company…
Glasgow Highlanders training in trench warfare. A striking photograph giving an excellent idea of the lay of a line of trenches. It will be seen that trenches can only be taken in sections; it is not a question of wresting a trench from the enemy and enfilading hundreds of yards of front with machine-guns. The zigzag construction necessitates the use of hand-grenades to dislodge occupants from each section in turn.
Infantrymen of the 2nd Battalion, Glasgow Highlanders, 15th (Scottish) Division, with Churchill tanks of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, near Moergestel, 26 October 1944.
45407 at Buxton in March 2018 while in the identity of scrapped sister no 45157 The Glasgow Highlander.
The Glasgow Highlander nameplate on the drivers side.