The Wartime Memories Project

- 16th (2nd Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry during the Great War -


Great War> Allied Army
skip to content


This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.


If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.



    Site Home

    Great War Home

    Search

    Add Stories & Photos

    Library

    Help & FAQs

 Features

    Allied Army

    Day by Day

    RFC & RAF

    Prisoners of War

    War at Sea

    Training for War

    The Battles

    Those Who Served

    Hospitals

    Civilian Service

    Women at War

    The War Effort

    Central Powers Army

    Central Powers Navy

    Imperial Air Service

    Library

    World War Two

 Submissions

    Add Stories & Photos

    Time Capsule

 Information

    Help & FAQs



    Glossary

    Our Facebook Page

    Volunteering

    News

    Events

    Contact us

    Great War Books

    About


Advertisements

World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment

16th (2nd Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry



   16th (2nd Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry was raised in Glasgow in September 1914. They served on the Western Front with 97th Brigade, 32nd Division

May 1915 On the Move

17th of August 1915 Instruction

23rd Nov 1915 On the Move

25th Nov 1915 On the Move

26th Nov 1915 In Billets

27th Nov 1915 On the March

28th Nov 1915 On the March

29th Nov 1915 In Billets

29th Nov 1915 Orders

30th Nov 1915 Orders Received

1st Dec 1915 Units Move

3rd Dec 1915 Instruction

4th Dec 1915 Instruction

5th Dec 1915 Instruction

6th Dec 1915 Instruction

7th Dec 1915 Orders Received

8th Dec 1915 Instruction

9th Dec 1915 Instruction

10th Dec 1915 Instruction

11th Dec 1915 Instruction

12th Dec 1915 Reliefs

13th Dec 1915 Instruction

14th Dec 1915 Instruction

15th Dec 1915 Instruction

16th Dec 1915 Instruction

17th Dec 1915 Instruction

18th Dec 1915 Instruction

19th Dec 1915 Instruction

20th Dec 1915 Instruction

21st Dec 1915 Instruction

22nd Dec 1915 Orders Issued  location map

23rd Dec 1915 Reliefs Complete  location map

24th Dec 1915 In the Line  location map

25th Dec 1915 Shelling  location map

26th Dec 1915 Quiet  location map

27th Dec 1915 Reliefs  location map

28th Dec 1915 Holding the Line  location map

29th Dec 1915 Holding the Line  location map

30th Dec 1915 Holding the Line  location map

31st Dec 1915 Reliefs  location map

1st May 1916 In Reserve  location map

2nd May 1916 In Reserve  location map

3rd May 1916 In Reserve  location map

4th May 1916 In Reserve  location map

4th May 1916 Reliefs  location map

1st July 1916 In Action

1st July 1916 In Action  location map

2nd July 1916 Reliefs  location map

3rd July 1916 Moves  location map

4th July 1916 In Reserve

21st Nov 1916 Holding out  location map

22nd Nov 1916 Holding out  location map

23rd Nov 1916 Orders  location map

31st Jan 1917 Reliefs

12th Feb 1917 Reliefs  location map

12th February 1917 Relief

14th Apr 1917 Assault  location map

14th May 1917 Exercise  location map

10th Jul 1917 Bombardment  location map

11th Jul 1917 Reliefs  location map

25th Aug 1917 Sports Meeting

2nd Dec 1917 Attack Made

3rd Jan 1918 Holiday

4th Nov 1918 Bridging

If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.





Want to know more about 16th (2nd Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry?


There are:5294 items tagged 16th (2nd Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry 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

16th (2nd Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Campbell John Keith. Pte. (d.1st July 1916)
  • Ferguson Andrew. Pte. (d.18th November 1916)
  • Lyall John. Pte. (d.1st July 1916)
  • McKay Alexander. L/Cpl. (d.16th Aug 1916)
  • Moodie William Anderson. Pte.
  • Reid Alexander. Pte. (d.31st Jan 1917)
  • Tyson Bertram. Pte. (d.27th Nov 1917)

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 16th (2nd Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry from other sources.


  • The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.

  • 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.

Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.



Looking for help with Family History Research?   

Please see Family History FAQ's

Please note: We are unable to provide individual research.

Can you help?

The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors.

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

  • 28th March 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 263784 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. William Anderson Moodie 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry

William Moodie received a bad leg injury he was captured on the 18th of November 1916 at Mailly on the Somme and became a prisoner of war. In February or March 1917, William as POW was in the War hospital in Cambrai, (Krg. Laz. Bay 6 Cambrai) being treated for a broken ankle or thigh. William was re-repatriated from Germany on the 5th of May 1918 and admitted to King George Hospital, Stamford Street, Waterloo, London with a shot gun wound, ankle left, shrapnel wound. He was discharged from Army on the 12th of December 1918 as no longer physically fit for war service and awarded the British War Medal and Victory medal.

On the 10th of 1929 William Moodie, aged 45 (passenger 175071), previously of 5 Hill Road, Arbroath, departed from Port of Greenock on the Canadian Pacific ship, Montrose, heading to port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (Third class passenger, No 57).

James Anderson






  Pte. John Lyall 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.1st July 1916)

John Lyall returned to Glasgow from Argentina to join the 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry, a Pals battalion of the Boys Brigade. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

<p>Obituary

<p>John Lyall

David Yates






  L/Cpl. Alexander McKay 16th (2nd Glasgow) Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.16th Aug 1916)

Alexander McKay was killed in action and is buried at Cambrin Churchyard Extension. Cambrin is a village about 24 kilometres north of Arras and about 8 kilometres east of Bethune, on the road to La Bassee, France.

DR






  Pte. Bertram Tyson 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.27th Nov 1917)

Bertram Tyson died aged 21 and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.







  Pte. Alexander Reid 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.31st Jan 1917)

Alexander Reid served with the Highland Light Infantry 16th Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 31st January 1917 and is buried in Bertrancourt Military Cemetery in Bertrancourt, France.

This 30 year old volunteer’s relatives were puzzled by the untimely end to the soldier’s life, The headstone bears an inscription “Thy purpose Lord we cannot see but all is well that’s done by thee.”

s flynn






Recomended Reading.

Available at discounted prices.









Links


    Suggest a link

















    The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers.

    This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.

    If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.


    Hosted by:

    The Wartime Memories Project Website

    is archived for preservation by the British Library





    Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV
    - All Rights Reserved -

    We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.