c1908 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry (HLI) Scottish Regimental Silver Wash Collar Badge Service Dress

Scarce 2nd Bn H.L.I. (City of Glasgow Highlanders) Regiment single right hand side silver / silver washed. VGC.

Ref: Churchill Infantry Collars. P.263.

he Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. It took part in the First and Second World Wars, until it was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1959 to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) which later merged with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, becoming the 2nd Battalion of the new regiment.

Code: 387