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8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders    8th (Service) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders was raised at Aberdeen in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army, they joined 26th Brigade, 9th (Scottish) Division. After inital training in the Aberdeen area they moved to Aldershot and in February 1915 went to Bordon for final training. They proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on the 10th of May 1915 and went into action in the The Battle of Loos. On the 7th of May 1916 they joined 44th Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division at Bethune and on the 11th amalgamated with 10th Battalion to form the 8/10th Gordons. 5th Sep 1914 Duplicate Units 11th May 1915 Motor Vehicles 15th May 1915 Concentration 15th May 1915 Report 15th May 1915 Orders 16th May 1915 Orders 17th May 1915 On the March   20th May 1915 Respirators   21st May 1915 Instruction   23rd May 1915 Instruction   24th May 1915 Instruction   25th May 1915 Bombs   26th May 1915 Orders   27th May 1915 Working Parties   31st May 1915 Instruction   13th July 1915 Orders Received 14th July 1915 Reliefs 23rd Jul 1915 Artillery blazing 1st Sep 1915 Instructions 1st Sep 1915 Orders 2nd Sep 1915 Orders   7th Sep 1915 Observation Precautions   10th Sep 1915 Instructions   14th Sep 1915 Instructions 15th Sep 1915 Defence Scheme 17th Sep 1915 Reliefs   21st Sep 1915 Orders   3rd June 1916 Operational Order   12th June 1916 Enemy blew mine 12th August 1916 Division to attack   13th August 1916 Reliefs   14th August 1916 Reliefs 10th March 1917 Take over the billets from 8th / 10th Gordons in Arras. 10th March 1917 March Table 10th March 1917 Operation Orders   11th March 1917 Relieved by 8th / 10th Gordons 18th March 1917 Operational Orders 23rd April 1917 Operational Orders   24th April 1917 Operational Orders   24th April 1917  2nd November 1917 Reliefs 25th November 1917 Operational Orders   26th November 1917 Move to Divisional Reserve 1st December 1917 Reliefs 1st December 1917 Operational Orders   4th April 1918 Relief Table   4th April 1918 Preparing for trenches. 8th April 1918 Operational Order No.10 8th April 1918 Table of Relief   8th April 1918 Reliefs If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders? There are:5280 items tagged 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders during the Great War 1914-1918. Carr Robert. Pte. (d.25th September 1915) Cherry John Giles. Pte. (d.5th July 1915) McNeil William McPherson Reid. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916) Murray James. Pte. Roddan Samuel. Walls Charles. L/Cpl. (d.16th May 1916) Watson Herbert Sanderson. Capt. (d.26th Sep 1915) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders from other sources. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 18th April 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263925 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.   Pte. John Giles Cherry 8th Btn. Gordon Highlanders (d.5th July 1915) John Cherry is commemorated at Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church in Stirling. Son of James and Elizabeth Cherry of 38 Upper Castlehill, Stirling. David W Brown Add to this record.    Samuel Roddan 8th Btn. Gordon Highlanders My grandfather, Samuel Roddan, served with the 8th Battalion Gordon Highlands. I found a certificate that states he was recognized by the Lodge St James B.U.R.A. No 424 Hawick, Certificate was dated July 3rd, 1924. Add to this record.   Pte. Robert Carr 8th Btn. Gordon Highlanders (d.25th September 1915) Robert Carr was born in the village of Killearn in Stirlingshire and was a general labourer. He originally enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders on the 13th of October in Edinburgh aged 32. But was discharged medically unfit for active service twelve days after joining due to a bad right knee. He Re-enlisted into the Gordon Highlanders on the 24th of May 1915 in Aberdeen. He was posted to France on the 14th of July 1915 and placed into a camp before being moved to the 5th Entrenching Battalion on the 3rd of September and then moved into the 8th Battalion on the 13th at Beuvry along with 29 other men two of them being English. Sadly, he was killed presumed missing in action on the 25th of September 1915 in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. His name is on the is on Panel 116 in the Loos Memorial. Add to this record.   Pte. William McPherson Reid McNeil 8/10th Battalion Gordon Highlanders (d.9th Sep 1916) William McNeil enlisted on the 3rd of November 1914, and was assigned to the 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He was killed on 9th of September 1916 in Bazentin le Petit. He is buried in Flatiron Copse Cemetery in Mametz, France. Roderick McLellan Add to this record.   Pte. James Murray 8th Btn. Gordon Highlanders James Murray died in 1922 as a result of war wounds. Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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