64th ( 2nd Highland ) Division The 64th ( 2nd Highland ) Division of the British Army was a second - line Territorial Force division , formed in 1914 , which served on home defence duties during the First World War . The division was formed as a duplicate of the 51st ( Highland ) Division in 1914 , composed primarily of soldiers from Highland regiments recruited in northern and central Scotland . It remained on home defence and training duties in Scotland and England throughout the war , and disbanded in early 1919 following the Armistice . History . The division was created as the " 2nd Highland Division " , a second - line formation of the Highland Division at the end of August 1914 . At this time , Territorial Force soldiers could not be deployed overseas without their consent , and the existing Territorial units were accordingly split into a " first line " , with men who had volunteered for overseas service , and a " second line " , which was intended for home service only . The second line units also served to absorb the large number of new , untrained , recruits who had joined the Territorial Force following the outbreak of war . The division ' s units formed through late 1914 , and assembled as a coherent unit in January 1915 . As with the original Highland Division , the 2nd Highland was organised into three infantry brigades . These were later numbered as the 191st , composed of the 2 / 4th , 2 / 5th , and 2 / 6th Seaforth Highlanders , 2 / 4th Cameron Highlanders , and 2 / 4th Black Watch ; the 192nd , composed of the 2 / 4th , 2 / 5th , 2 / 6th , and 2 / 7th Gordon Highlanders and 2 / 6th and 2 / 7th Black Watch ; and the 193rd , composed of the 2 / 6th , 2 / 7th , 2 / 8th , and 2 / 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders . With fifteen battalions , the 2nd Highland had a higher nominal strength than its parent division ; the three additional units came from the second - line units of the Black Watch Brigade , assigned to the division as it assembled in January 1915 . The 191st Brigade recruited from the far north of Scotland ; the 192nd from the north - east and Aberdeen ; and the 193rd from central and western Scotland . The Black Watch battalions were recruited from Fife , Dundee , and Perthshire . The division also raised second - line Territorial artillery , medical , signal and engineer units , from the same areas . Through the next two years , the 2nd Highland , numbered as the 64th Division in 1915 , provided trained men for its parent unit as well as carrying out home defence duties . The division was assembled in Fife and Perthshire . In mid - 1915 the strength of its infantry battalions was set at a minimum 600 men , with any more than this being transferred overseas ; later that year , all the infantry battalions were renumbered and several were amalgamated . The old unit numbering was reinstated in January 1916 , but the amalgamations remained . In 1916 the division ' s howitzer brigade was broken up and its heavy artillery battery sent to France ; a third field artillery brigade was briefly added but dissolved soon afterwards . In March 1916 the division was transferred to England , where it was stationed in East Anglia . A second wave of reorganisation took place in 1917 – 18 , with the division absorbing twelve " graduated battalions " – training units – and disbanding almost all of its original infantry units . By the time of the Armistice in November 1918 , its infantry complement consisted entirely of graduated battalions . The division was demobilised shortly afterwards , and ceased to exist in April 1915 . The division was not reformed during the Second World War , and the numbers for the subsidiary brigades were also not reused .