Blythswood Rifles
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The Blythswood Rifles was a Scottish Volunteer unit of the British Army. Raised in Glasgow from 1859, it later became a battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. During World War I it served at Gallip
Cap badge of the Higland Light Infantry
Men of 52nd (L) Division with captured machine guns at Quéant, 6 September 1918
Destroyed bridge over the Canal du Nord near Mœuvres
3.7-inch HAA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford
42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade
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42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army. It was responsible for protecting extensive residential, industrial and shipping areas around Greater Glasgow and
Blythswood Rifles
…three batteries (257, 258, 259) all based at Bridgeton. It adopted the simpler title of 83rd (Blythswood) AA Regiment in July 1939. It formed part of 42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, newly formed to take responsibility for the AA defence of Glasgow and the Clyde estuary. In February 1939 the existing AA defences came under the…
ATS spotters at an HAA gun site in Scotland, January 1943.
Loading a mobile multiple 4-inch Z projector, 1941
40 mm Bofors LAA gun and crew.