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14th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
14th (Service) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) was raised at Hamilton in July 1915 as a Bantam Battalion. They trained at Troon until September when they
moved to Blackdown to join 120th Brigade, 40th Division. On the 2nd of March 1916 they absorbed the 13th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). They proceeded to France in June 1916, where the division concentrated near Lillers. They went into the front line near Loos and were later in action in The Battle of the Ancre on the Somme. In 1917 they saw action during The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The capture of Fifteen Ravine, Villers Plouich, Beaucamp and La Vacquerie abd The Cambrai Operations, including the capture of Bourlon Wood in November. In 1918 they fought in The Battle of St Quentin and The Battle of Bapaume on the Somme then the The Battle of Estaires and The Battle of Hazebrouck in Flanders, suffering heavy losses. The Division was reduced to a cadre and were reorganised, on the 3rd of June the 14th HLI transferred to 34th Division, then on the 17th to 39th Division. On the 16th of August they transferred to 197th Brigade, 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division, returning to action in October in The Battle of Cambrai and The Pursuit to the Selle. They fought in The Battle of the Selle and on the 21st of October the Division was withdrawn for rest moving to the Serain area. On the 2nd of November they advanced through Le Cateau engaging in sharp fighting. On the 9th of November a number of units of the Division were selected to advance through Belgium to occupy the Rhone Bridgeheads and were placed under command of Bethell's Force. At the Armistice the advanced units of this Force were on the line of Pont de Republique through Grandrieu to Montbliart. They advanced into Germany and remained there until demobilised.
21st June 1916 14th H.L.I. attached
11th July 1916 Heavy Bombardment
17th July 1916 Reliefs Complete
29th Jul 1916 Reliefs
30th Jul 1916 Relief Completed 
5th August 1916 H.Q. staff arrive
5th September 1916 Reliefs
10th October 1916 121st Infantry Brigade Order No. 28.
10th October 1916 Table of Reliefs
10th October 1916 Table of Reliefs
11th October 1916 Trench Raid
30th Dec 1916 Artillery Active
30th December 1916 March Table B.O.O.52
20th Jun 1917 Reliefs
30th Nov 1917 Congratulations
29th December 1917 Reliefs
1st Apr 1918 Reliefs Complete
2nd Apr 1918 Moves
3rd Apr 1918 Quiet
4th Apr 1918 Quiet
5th Apr 1918 Orders
6th Apr 1918 Reliefs Completed
7th Apr 1918 Reorganisation
9th Apr 1918 In Action
10th Apr 1918 Attacks
30th of April 1918 Reliefs and Attacks
18th May 1918 Sympathy
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L/Cpl. John Mackin 14th Btn. Highland Light Infantry John Mackin began his service with the 14th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, having enlisted on the 6th of December 1916, shortly after the Battle of the Somme ended.
The 14th HLI had been in France since early June 1916. Mackin joined them at the start of March 1917, at which point they were stationed at a camp in Bray, France. He suffered a wound to his shoulder blade from a piece of shrapnel around this time and was sent back to Scotland to recover at the end of April, at which point the 14th were fighting in Entricourt, France
Mackin returned to France in early September 1917, at this time the 14th were on the Front Lines in Villers-Plouich. They remained there until 5th October, carrying out a successful raid on the enemy trenches and repulsing an enemy raid on theirs. On 5th October, they were relieved and moved west to Berneville and Pommera for a period of training and recuperation. They began returning east in mid-November, eventually arriving for an attack on the village of Bourlon on the 23rd. On November 25th, three of their Companies were surrounded in the village and forced to surrender after losing their CO, all their ammunition and all but 80 men; 17 officers and 426 other ranks were listed as dead, wounded or missing.
After a period of recovery, the 14th moved back to the Hindenburgh Line in mid-December, moving between sectors south of the town of Arras, including Mort and Noreuil. On 31st of March 1918, while they were at Vaulx Vraucourt, Germany launched the 1918 Spring Offensive, a huge (and ultimately failed) campaign against Allied forces across the Western Front, utilising the huge influx of men and weaponry freed up from the Eastern Front after Russia's surrender. During the resulting chaos over the next few days, Mackin was gassed and became a Prisoner of War. He was listed as missing later that year and as a Lance Corporal.
Mackin was released at the start of December in 1918 and was sent back to the UK. He was Honourably Discharged on 8th of March 1919 due to lung problems and received the Silver War Badge. He was also awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal, for his service to King and Country.
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Pte. Thomas Burrows 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (d.24th November 1917) Thomas Burrows died at the Battle of Cambrai, no marked grave but has a memorial at Louverval in France.
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Pte. Patrick Healy 14th Btn. Highland Light Infantry We believe that my grandfather, Patrick Healy, gave his birth date 2 years younger than he was, perhaps he would have been too old to join up at the time he signed up to the 14th Highland Light Infantry.
All I know is that one point he attached to 120th Machine Gun Company. Then to 2nd Highland Light Infantry.
He was badly gassed at some point and ended up at the Dunlop House Red Cross Hospital in Ayrshire where he met my grandmother. She was the daughter of the Head Gardener of the big house and according to my 96 year old mother would go up to the Hospital to write letters for the invalided soldiers. They eventually married, but he died at an early age in 1932 when she was 10, having been troubled by lung problems since the war.
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Pte. Henry Hargreave 14th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.3rd Jul 1916) My grandfather Henry Hargreave was killed at the battle of the Somme on the morning of the 3rd July 1916 between 1am and 7.15am. He was with the 15th HLI who advanced from Leipzig salient at 6.15am to the German front line trenches between X.1.a.59 and R.31.c.50.15, which they took but could not hold and were back in their original position in Leipzig salient by 7.15am. He was identified by his disc and eventually buried in Serre Road Cemetery No.2.
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Pte Roderick Chisholm 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (d.24 November 1917) Roderick Chisholm was my great grandfather's brother. He was born in Beauly, Inverness.
Roderick is commemorated with honours on the Cambrai Memorial, Panel 10. His brother Christopher, my great grandfather, also fought with the Highland Light Infantry 5th battalion. He died on the 2nd of September 1915. He lies in East Mudros Military Cemetery. Their older brother, Thomas John, also fell.
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Pte. James Patrick 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (d.24th Nov 1917) James Patrick was the second son of Thomas and Isabella Patrick who resided in a small mining village - Mavis Valley Bishopbriggs. I have not yet found how or when he enlisted but do know he was killed on 24th of November 1917 aged 24. He was killed in action in France and he is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial Louverval.
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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. Peter Birrell 14th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.30th Nov 1917) My Great Uncle, Peter Birrell, lies in Grave Reference XXX. N. 10A. at Etaples Military Cemetery. He was the son of Alexander Birrell, of 74, Temple Park Crescent, Edinburgh. Peter served in the South African Campaign and on the Western Front. He was wounded in the German counter attack at Battle of Cambrai on the 30th of November 1917 and died at Etaples Wounded Clearance Centre. He also served in the Royal Scots during the Boer War and was wounded at Grobel's Farm in 1901.
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