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 Gallipoli, in Egypt and Palestine, in Ireland, and on the Western Front. Converted into an anti-aircraft artillery regiment just before World War II, it served in The Blitz and in the Middle East during the war, and continued in the postwar Territorial Army until 1955.
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.
The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. It took part in the First and Second World Wars, until it was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1959 to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers which later merged with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch, the Highlanders and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, becoming the 2nd Battalion of the new regiment.
Cap badge
Troops of the Highland Light Infantry resting by the roadside on the way up to attack, 24 September 1917.
Gravestones of HLI soldiers who died in the First World War in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Gaza City
Lorries carrying men of the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry towards the front line, 9 June 1942.