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5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry was a unit of the Territorial Force with its HQ at 24 Hill Street, Garnethill, Glasgow. It was made up of Companies A to H. They were part of HLI Brigade, Lowland Division. They had just departed for annual summer campwhen war broke out in August 1914, They were at once mobilised and moved to Dunfermline in a defensive role. On the 11th of May 1915 the formation was renamed 157th Brigade, 52nd (Lowland) Division. On the 26th of May they sailed from Devonport for Gallipoli, via Egypt and Mudros. They landed at Cape Helles on the 3rd of July. They were in action at Gully Ravine, Achi Baba Nullah, Krithia Nullahs and The evcuation of Helles on the 8th of January 1916. They moved to Egypt and concentrated at Abbassia near Cairo. They moved to El Kantara and took over No 3 Section of the Suez Canal defences on the 2nd of March. They were in action at Dueidar in April and The Battle of Romani in August. In 1917 they were in action during The First, Second and Third Battles of Gaza, at Wadi el Hesi, The capture of Junction Station, The Battle of Nabi Samweil and The Battle of Jaffa including the passage of the Nahr-el-Auja. 52nd Division remained in the line near Arsuf until March 1918 when it was relieved by the 7th (Meerut) Division and proceedrd to France, sailing from Alexandria on the 11th of April, via Marseilles they concentrated near Abbeville. 52nd Divisiobn took over a sector of front line near Vimy on the 6th of May until the 23rd of July when they moved to take over the line north east of Arras. They were in action inThe Battle of Albert, The Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line, The Battle of the Canal du Nord and The Final Advance in Artois. At the Armistice 52nd Division was north of the Mons canal engaged on clearing Herchies.
25th Apr 1915 Training
12th Jul 1915 Attack Made
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
2nd March 1916 Three Posts moved to Kantara
18th March 1916 Posting
10th July 1917 Reliefs
2nd August 1917 Table of Reliefs.
3rd August 1917 Brigade Order
4th August 1917 52nd Divinion Order No.66.
11th August 1917 Relief of 2 Coys. 4th Royal Scots
15th March 1918 Brigade Order No.30.
15th March 1918 Brigade Administartive Order No.2
1st April 1918 Tactical Exercise
2nd April 1918 Move from Castle Hill to Sarona
3rd April 1918 From Sarona to Surafend
29th June 1918 Reliefs
18th September 1918 Orders received
19th September 1918 Relief of the 5th H.L.I. 
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Those known to have served with5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry during the Great War 1914-1918. - Barr John. Pte. (d.24th Dec 1915)
- Barr John. Pte. (d.24th Dec 1915)
- Bollands Walter. Pte.
- Chisholm Christopher. Pte. (d.2nd September 1915)
- Dow James. Pte. (d.19th Dec1915)
- Hogg William Bain. Pte. (d.22nd Nov 1915)
- Jeffries George Edward. A/CQMS.
- McCann Joseph Davidson. Cpl. (d.30th Nov 1917)
- McLarty John. Sgt. (d.25th Dec 1915)
- Read Eber. Pte. (d.29th Sep 1918)
- Wilkinson Charles. Pte. (d.30th Nov 1917)
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A/CQMS. George Edward Jeffries 7th Btn. Suffolk Regiment George Jeffries embarked on 30th of May 1915. George was later transferred to the 2nd Highland Light Infantry, then the 5th Highland Light Infantry.
He reached the rank of A/CQMS and was demobbed on the 4th of April 1919 at Hamilton. He was awarded the Victory and British Medals and the 15 Star.
He was born in Pakefield, Suffolk and was married to Maggie.
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Pte. Christopher Chisholm 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (d.2nd September 1915) He served in Gallipoli
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Sgt. John McLarty 1st/5th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.25th Dec 1915) My Great Grandfather, John McLarty, served and died during the Galipoli campaign. He was married, my grandfather, his son was the only boy. I believe he had some sisters. John McLarty died at age 25.
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Pte. James Dow 5th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.19th Dec1915) James Dow died on the 19th of December 1915 and is buried in the Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey.
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Pte. William Bain Hogg 5th (City of Glasgow) Btn. D Coy Highland Light Infantry (d.22nd Nov 1915) William Bain Hogg is interred in the Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles. His Battalion embarked for Gallipoli in May 1915.
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Cpl. Joseph Davidson McCann 5th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.30th Nov 1917) Joseph Davidson McCann was my mother's uncle. I knew nothing of his story until shortly before my mothers death 4 yrs ago. All I know about him is he served with the 1st and 5th battalions of the Highland Light Infantry, he is buried in Ramleh cemetery.
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Pte. Walter Bollands 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment  Walter Bollands of Middlesbrough, enlisted on 14/09/1915, age 16 years & 9 months. He was posted to the 3/5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment was a Depot/training units formed in Northallerton and Scarborough, April and March 1915, transferred 08/02/1916 to 5th Yorkshire regiment.
He went to France, Embarking from Southampton with 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment to Rouen.
On the 1st of Aug 1916 Aged 17, he saw action on the Somme in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette with the 5th Bat Yorkshire Reg. Between the 7th and 17th August 1916 the 5th Battalion moved from Kemmel to Millencourt, a village just West of Albert in the Somme.
On the 11 Aug 1916, Walter joined 150th Machine Gun Corps Frances 50th (Northumbrian) Division, 150th (York & Durham) Brigade and was in action on the 16th Sep 1916 on the Somme in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15th-22nd September) The following day, 17 Sep 1916 he recievd a Gun shot wound to the back, and was sent to Le Treport on the French coast which was the site for some significant hospital provision.
In the 1 Oct 1916 issue of the Green Howard Gazette, Walter is amongst those listed in Sept - Oct 1916. On the 5th Oct 1916 he was admitted to the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Cardonald, Glasgow. But on the 6 Oct 1916 there is a AFW 3016 Army form authorising a wounded man to return to duty and he was posted to 87 Territorial Forces Depot.
On the 16th of Nov 1916 He joined the Highland Light Infantry 2/5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion who were at Danbury, going on to the Curragh in January 1917, Dublin in August, and back to the Curragh in November 1917.
On the 20th of Feb 1918 Walter was posted to 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (120th Brigade 40th Division) (202902) in France. On the 1st of Mar 1918 The battalion moved into the front line at Fleurbaix relieving 2/10th K.O.L.R.
On the 9th of Apr 1918, then aged 19, Walter;s Service record shows him as reported missing. Walter Bollands was taken Prisoner of War after the Battle of the Lys, when the Portugeuse line collapsed and was taken to a German POW camp April 1918.
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Pte. Charles Wilkinson 5th Btn Highland Light Infantry (d.30th Nov 1917) My great grandfather, Charles Wilkinson served with the 1st/5th battalion HLI during World War One. He saw action in Gallipoli, Romania, Gaza and was killed in action in Egypt on 30/11/1917 at the age of 29.
I have his 'dead man's penny" mounted in a frame along with a silk embroidery bearing the HLI coat of arms, the places he served and a simple message... "to dear wife from Charles".
He is remembered at the Ramleh War Cemetry near Tel Aviv, Isreal.
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