Great Britain

The Royal Scots Fusiliers

The Highland Light Infantry

Kingdom of Scotland
 
1678: Charles, Earl of Mar’s
Regiment of Foot
1686: Thomas Buchan’s
1689: Francis Fergus O’Farrell’s
1695: The Scotch Fuzileers
Robert Mackay’s
1697: Archibald Row’s
1704: John, Viscount Mordaunt’s
1706: Sampson de Lalo’s
1707: Kingdom of Great Britain
1707: The North British Fuzileers
Sampson de Lalo’s
1709: John, Viscount Mordaunt’s
1710: Thomas Meredith’s
1710: Earl of Orrery’s
1713: The Royal North British
Fuzileers

Earl of Orrery’s
1716: George Maccartney’s
1729: James Wood’s
1738: John, Duke of Argyll’s
1751: 21st Regiment of Foot
(Royal North British Fuzileers)


21st-Foot
1777:


73rd (Highland)
Regiment of Foot
(McLeod’s Highlanders)

1778:
2nd Bn raised
1783:
2nd Bn disbanded
1786:


71st (Highland)
Regiment of Foot
(McLeod’s Highlanders)

1787:



74th (Highland)
Regiment of Foot

1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1804: 2nd Bn raised
2nd Bn raised

1808:

71st (Glasgow Highland)
Regiment of Foot



1809:


71st (Glasgow Highland
Light Infantry)
Regiment of Foot

74thRegiment of Foot


1810:


71st (Highland)
Regiment of Foot
(Light Infantry)




1815:
2nd Bn disbanded

1816: 2nd Bn disbanded


1842:
Reserve Bn raised

1845:



74th (Highland)
Regiment of Foot

1853:
Reserve Bn disbanded

1857: 2nd Bn raised


1877: 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers)
Regiment of Foot





21st Foot
71st Foot
74st Foot
layout
71st Foot
layout
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn, 1st Bn, 2nd Bn,
The Royal Scots Fusiliers The Highland Light Infantry
Royal-Scots-Fusiliers
Highland-Light-Infantry
layout
RSF
layout
RSF
HLI
1922: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1923:

The Highland Light Infantry
(City of Glasgow Regiment)

1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Lowland Brigade
part of
The Highland Brigade
RSF
HLI
1958:
tranferred to
The Lowland Brigade
layout layout
1959: 1st Battalion,
The Royal Highland Fusiliers
(Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
Lowland
1968:
part of
The Scottish Division
RHF
2006: The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
The Royal Regiment of Scotland
SCOTS