Glasgow Highlanders The Glasgow Highlanders was a former Territorial Army regiment in the British Army , it eventually became part of The Highland Light Infantry ( City of Glasgow Regiment ) in 1881 , which later became The Royal Highland Fusiliers ( Princess Margaret ' s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment ) in 1959 . It was amalgamated into the 52nd Lowland Volunteers in 1967 . History . They were originally formed as the 105th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers , also known as the Glasgow Highland Regiment , which was formed in 1868 by a group of Highland migrants to Glasgow as part of the civilian Volunteer Force and initially wore the uniform and based its cap badge upon that of The Black Watch . It consisted of 12 companies . The various battalions of the Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers eventually became volunteer battalions of either the Highland Light Infantry or the Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles ) after Childers Reforms in 1881 , with the 105th becoming part of the former , and renumbered as the 10th Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifles , which was changed to the 5th ( Glasgow Highland ) Volunteer Battalion in 1887 . They were based at Greendyke Street drill hall near Glasgow Green and were distinctive because they continued to wear their kilts in contrast to the rest of the HLI , who wore trews . Detachments were sent to South Africa during the Second Boer War and earned the battalion its first battle honour , for service on the Modder River . TF and WWI . In 1908 they became the 9th ( Glasgow Highlanders ) Battalion , The Highland Light Infantry , when they became part of the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division in the new Territorial Force . During the First World War they recruited another two home - based battalions , one of which was a Bantam battalion , which were used to supply manpower to the 1st Battalion in France , which served with distinction with the Highland Light Infantry under the 2nd Division at the battles of Festubert and Loos . In May 1916 they transferred to the 33rd Division and fought at the Somme ( at High Wood ) , Arras and Passchendaele . After the end of the war , the Glasgow Highlanders were disbanded along with the rest of the Territorial Force . The story of the Battalion in the Great War would later be dramatised in the 1995 Bill Bryden play , " The Big Picnic " , starring Jimmy Logan . TA and WWII . In 1920 , it was re - established as the Territorial Army , and the Glasgow Highlanders re - raised a single battalion . They later moved to a new Headquarters in Maryhill in 1935 . When war was declared in 1939 the battalion went to war again and also raised a second battalion , they fought valiantly as part of the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division and 15th ( Scottish ) Division in the Second World War , most notably during the capture of Walcheren Island during the Battle of the Scheldt in November 1944 . Postwar . In 1949 it was redesignated the 1st Battalion , The Glasgow Highlanders , The Highland Light Infantry ( City of Glasgow Regiment ) and in 1959 transferred from the Highland Light Infantry to the new Royal Highland Fusiliers Regiment without change of title . In 1967 , with the formation of the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve ( TAVR ) , the battalion laid up its colours and was amalgamated with the other TA battalions of Regiments in the Lowland Brigade , which were reformed as companies in three new TAVR battalions . The name of the Glasgow Highlanders was initially carried on through HQ ( Glasgow Highlanders ) Company of the 52nd Lowland Volunteers and C ( Glasgow Highlanders ) Company of the 3rd ( Territorial ) Battalion , The Royal Highland Fusiliers . With the disbandment of the latter in 1969 , it was only carried on by HQ ( Glasgow Highlanders ) Company of the 1st Battalion , 52nd Lowland Volunteers . It later changed its affiliation to The Royal Highland Fusiliers in 1973 , thus formally ending the existence of a Glasgow Highlanders unit within the Territorial Army . The Glasgow Highlanders ' name was continued by a platoon of the Army Cadet Force , attached to 52nd Lowland Regiment . However in 2007 , this ACF unit changed its affiliation to 52nd Lowland , 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland and became F Platoon RHF ( Maryhill ) . But members still have the history of the Glasgow Highlanders taught to them .