Medals of the Highland Light Infantry, 71st and 74th Regiment.

Medals of the Regiments:
The Highland Light Infantry




Above :Highland Light Infantry cap badge.	Above collar badge (top) and shoulder title.
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	The Highland Light Infantry
	1777 - 1959


Titles
pre 1881			post 1881
71st (Highland) Light Infantry			1st Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
74th (Highlanders) Regiment			2nd Battalion The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

Earliest recognised formation:	1777 for the 71st Foot (known as at the 73rd until 1789) and 1787 for the 74th.

Motto:	Montis insignia Calpe = The badge of the Rock of Gibraltar

Regimental Journal:	The HLI Chronicle.

WWI	Battle Honours; 65	Victoria Crosses; 7		Died; 10,030
WWII	Battle Honours; ??	Victoria Crosses; 0		Died; 1,391

Amalgamated:	1959 with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to become "The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)"

Fourth Mysore War 1799 74th Regiment
Seringapatam Medal 1799 (Honourable East India Company)
numbers:	?

Second Mahratta War 1803-05. 74th Regiment

Army of India Medal 1799 - 1826

Clasp: →

Assye

Argaum

Gawilghur

Note: a "survivors only" medal issued many years after the campaign, hence the low numbers.

Peninsula War 1808 - 1814 71st and 74th Regiment
Military General Service Medal. 1793 - 1814 clasps:
Total Medals	Max clasps	Roleia	Vimera	Corunna	Talavera	Busaco	Fuentes d' Onor	Ciudad Rodrigo	Badajoz	Salamanca	Vittoria	Pyrenees	Nivelle	Nive	Orthes	Toulouse
71st Regiment
388	10	104	147	131	3	-	123	-	-	-	237	182	90	131	141	182
74th Regiment
233	11	-	-	-	-	118	96	111	90	113	142	124	69	35	129	141

Battle of Waterloo 1815 71st Regiment
Waterloo Medal 1815
Number:	798

The 71st allegedly fired the last shot of the day with an artillery piece they had just captured and turned onto its fleeing previous owners.

Third Kaffir War 1850 - 1853 74th Regiment.
South Africa Medal 1834-53
Number:	558

The regiment lost an Ensign and 48 men (out of a reinforcement draft of 75) who were onboard the Birkenhead when she sank, 25th February 1852.

Crimean War 1854 - 1856 71st Regiment*

Crimea Medal 1854 -56

Clasp: →

..none...

Sebastopol

Total Medals

Number: →

923**

*Two battalions of the 71st existed from 1842. These met and amalgamated in the Crimea.

**Rough guide. Contemporary annotation to the roll states "24 sheets 923 names". Actual medals issued will probably be slightly less than this.

Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for:

Turkish Crimea Medal 1855

India Mutiny 1857 71st and 74th Regiment.

India Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59

71st Regiment

Clasp:

...none...

Central India

Total Medals

Number:

124

716

840

74th Regiment

Number:

442

Ambela Campaign 1863 71st Regiment

India General Service Medal 1854 - 95

Clasp:

Umbeyla

Number :

Became; " The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)" in 1881. (1st and 2nd Battalions.)

Egypt Campaign 1882 2nd Battalion

Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89

Clasp:

...none...

Tel-el-Kebir

Total medals

Number:

718

790*

*17 medals marked forfeited or returned to mint have been subtracted.

Recipients also entitled to a Khedive's Star dated 1882

Malakand Field Force, North West Frontier 1897. 2nd Battalion

India Medal 1895

Clasp:

Punjab Frontier
1897-98

Number:

Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 1st Battalion

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902

Common clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also:

clasp;

Modder River

Paardeberg

Wittebergen

numbers;

Casualties:

Officers

NCOs and Men

KIA & DOW

Wounded

Missing / POW

KIA & DOW

Death from disease

Wounded

Missing / POW

161

139

The Great War 1914 - 1918 (raised 26 battalions; 14 served overseas:- )

Generally awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal, most men overseas prior to 1/1/1916 also a 1914 or 1914-15 Star.

Battalion →

1/5

1/6

1/7

1/9

10/11**

date of first overseas service.
(first theatre red x )

?/9
1914

14/8
1914

5/6
1915

23/11
1914

?/5
1915

?/7
1915

?/6
1916

?/11
1915

23/11
1915

1/2
1916

France & Flanders

Gallipoli

Egypt & Palestine

Mesopotamia

Star
possible ?

1914 or 1914-15

or 1914-15 only

died
Extracted from : "Soldiers / Officers Died in the Great War" (consider approximate - in addition 126 officers are recorded with 'battalion not shown' or battalions not listed here.)

1039

1096

409

392

367

1258

435

195

909

340

629

819

576

516

546

* 1st battalion was in India when war broke out. First moved to Egypt for two months then on to France in December.
**10th and 11th battalions amalgamated 14/5/16
2/5, 2/6, 2/7, 2/9 battalions served Ireland only and are not shown.

Regular

Territorial Force

New Armies

Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
70 officers and men of the Highland Light Infantry also qualified for this medal.

Mohmand Campaign 1935 2nd Battalion.

India General Service Medal 1908

clasp:

North West Frontier 1935

numbers:

Jewish / Arab unrest, Palestine 1936 - 39 2nd Battalion

General Service Medal 1918 -62

clasp:

Palestine

numbers:

WW2 1939 - 1945 battalions that served overseas
Battalion →	1st	2nd	5th	6th	1/9th	2/9th	10th
Theatre ↓
France and Belgium 1940. (Dunkirk )	x		x*	x*	x*
North Africa & Middle East		x
Far East
Sicily / Italy		x
N.W. Europe	x		x	x	x	x	x

Notes.
		converted to "No2 Beach Brick" for Sicily, -not used. Retrained Mountaineer Btn. served Yugoslav Islands.			1st Glasgow Highlanders	2nd Glasgow Highlanders
			Provided elements for independent coys. in Norwegian Ops. 1940
			*These three battalions were also a component of "Norman Force" 15th-18th June 1940


WW2 Stars common to the Battalion (excluding 39-45 star ) Key: A = Africa, P = Pacific, B = Burma, I = Italy, F&G = France and Germany
medal	F&G	A, I	F&G	F&G	F&G	F&G	F&G
ribbon bar		8th Army ?


Most also entitled to the 1939-45 War Medal and many the Defence Medal

2nd Battalion place in suspended animation 1947.

Jewish / Arab Unrest, Palestine 1945 - 48 1st Battalion

General Service Medal 1918 -62

clasp:

Palestine 1945-48

numbers:

Canal Zone 1951 - 1954 1st Battalion

General Service Medal 1918 -62

clasp:

Canal Zone

numbers:

Highland Light Infantrymen killed in the Canal Zone were buried in Tel-el-Kebir cemetery alongside the men of the 2nd Battalion killed in 1882 .

The Cyprus Emergency 1955 - 1960 1st Battalion

General Service Medal 1918-62

clasp:

Cyprus

numbers:




Above: Single Clasp India Medal 1895 to the Highland Light Infantry.

Selected Links
The Regimental Museum. (Info only, no website 18/6/07) Located 518 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
Royal Highland Fusiliers


Selected Bibliography; The Highland Light Infantry, 71st and 74th Regiment.

Author	Title	Publisher
Cannon, Richard.	Historical records of the Seventy First Regiment, Highland Light Infantry.	Parker, Furnivall & Parker, 1852.
Cannon, Richard.	Historical records of the Seventy Fourth Regiment, (Highlanders)	Parker, Furnivall & Parker, 1850.
Grahame, John . Col.	Early days of the 74th Highland Regiment ( later 2nd Battalion The Highland Light Infantry)	the regiment 1951
anon	Regiment Records of the Highland Light Infantry ( old 71st and 74th)	John Horn Ltd. Glasgow 1914.
anon	Historical Records of the 74th Highlanders ( now 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry) from 1787 to 1887	James MacVeigh. London 1887
anon	Regimental Records of the First Battalion Highland Light Infantry formerly the 71st Highland Light Infantry 1777 to 1906	The Watling Works, Dinapore 1907
Oatts, L.B.	Proud Heritage. The Story of the Highland Light Infantry (4Vols)	Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London (vol 1) and House of Grant Ltd., Glasgow (vols 2-4) 1953-9
Chalmers, Thomas	An Epic of Glasgow. History of the 15th battalion The Highland Light Infantry ( City of Glasgow Regiment)	John McCallum, Glasgow. 1934
Chalmers, Thomas	A Saga of Scotland. History of the 16th battalion The Highland Light Infantry ( City of Glasgow Regiment)	John McCallum, Glasgow. [1930]
	The 17th Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service 1914-1918	David J. Clark 1920
	The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War, 1914-1918.	Glasgow: Printed for private circulation by Maclehose, Jackson & Co., 1921.
	Book of the Sixth Highland Light Infantry.	Glasgow: Clark, 1918
Johnston R. T. Capt., Steward Capt. N. D., & Dunlop, Ian A. (Chaplain.)	Campaign in Europe. The Story of The 10th Battalion The Highland Light Infantry City of Glasgow Regiment), 1944-1945.	McCorduodale Glasgow 1946
D. R. M. [Donald R. McLaren]	A Silver Lining. The Glasgow Highlanders in France	John Smith & Son Ltd., Glasgow: . [1916]
	1st Bn. The Glasgow Highlanders H.L.I. (from October 1944 to May 1945 during the campaign in North West Europe).	published by the Education Department, 1st Battalion The Glasgow Highlanders H.L.I. [1945]
	Concise Official History of the 2nd Battalion The Glasgow Highlanders, The Highland Light Infantry.	Lübeck: 1946 ["Not for sale"]

General bibliography for this page.

Author/Compiler	Title	Publisher
Officers of the Regiment.	Unpublished rolls in the care of the National Archives; WO 100/ etc.	-


	and other sources as listed on the Northumberland Fusiliers page