1881: The Gordon Highlanders - organised as the county regiment of Aberdeenshire and uniting two regular battalions.

1st Battalion - 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot

2nd Battalion - 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

1994: Amalgamated with Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Cameroons) to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Cameroons)

World War One (21 Battalions)

The Great War [21 battalions]: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 '18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Bullecourt, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle. Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18

Battle Honours WW2

The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Odon, La Vie Crossing, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940, '44-45, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Mareth, Medjez Plain, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Sferro, Sicily 1943, Anzio, Rome, Italy 1944-45

 

The Gordon Highlanders Regimental Museum, Aberdeen (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
1881 Malta
1882 Egypt
1882 Egypt
1884 Sudan
1885 Malta
<1889> Ceylon
<1894> India: Subathu
1895.03 Chitral expedition
1895.08 Subathu?
<1897> Gharial
1898 Scotland: Edinburgh
1899.12 South Africa 19 Bde
1902 Scotland: Glasgow
1904 Ireland: Cork
1909 England: Colchester
1913 Plymouth
1914.08 France and Flanders 3 Div
1919 Germany Army of Occupation
1920.01 Turkey Army of Occupation
1921 Malta
1924 Egypt
1925 India: Poona
1927 Delhi
1930 Landi Kotal
1933 NW Frontier
1934 Palestine
1935 Scotland: Edinburgh
1938 England: Aldershot 2 Bde
1939.09 France & Belgium 1 Inf Div, BEF
1940.03 France & Belgium 51 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 captured by the Germans at St. Valery
1940.09 re-formed in UK by redesignation of 9th Battalion
1940.09 UK 51 Inf Div
1942.08 Middle East
1943.07 Sicily 153 Bde, 51 Inf Div
1943.09 Italy
1944.01 UK
1944.06 NW Europe
1945 Germany
1948.07.12 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1948 Germany 2 Div, BAOR
1949.05 Berlin
1950.12
1951.05 Singapore
1954.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1955.10 Cyprus
1956.12 Scotland: Edinburgh
1958 Germany: Celle 7 Armd Bde
1962.01 Kenya 24 Inf Bde
1963.06 [Swaziland]
1963.08 Kenya 24 Inf Bde
1964.01.24 Kenya (2 coys; 2 coys already gone home) 24 Inf Bde
1964.01 Edinburgh
1965.01 Far East
1966.02 England: Colchester 19 Bde
1967.09 Germany: Minden 11 Bde
1969.11 Aldershot?
1972.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1979.05 (Northern Ireland)
1972.09 Edinburgh
1973.03 (Northern Ireland)
1973.07 Scotland: Edinburgh
1973.12 Singapore 28 Inf Bde
1975.12 Edinburgh?
1976.11 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1978.05 England: Chester 42 Bde
1979.08 (Northern Ireland)
1979.12 England: Chester 42 Bde
1980.03 Scotland: Edinburgh
1981 [Belize 1981]
1981 Scotland: Edinburgh
1984.10 Hemer 6 Airmobile Bde [airmobile bn]
1985.02 (Northern Ireland)
1985.06 Hemer 6 Airmobile Bde [airmobile bn]
1990.01 Fort George
1990.07 (Northern Ireland)
1990.12 Fort George
1991.06 Berlin Berlin Bde
1994.04 Scotland: Edinburgh
1994.09.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons), to form 1st Bn, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)

2nd Battalion

1861.07.04 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1863 England
Scotland
Ireland
1868 India
1878 Afghanistan
1880 India
1881.01 South Africa
1881.03 Natal
1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
1885 England: Devonport
Scotland
1885 Channel Islands
1887 Ireland: Belfast
<1892> Curragh
<1894> Dublin

1894/1895 Maryhill Bks Glasgow
1896 England: Aldershot
1898 India
1899.11 at sea
1899 South Africa
1902.01 India: Thobba or Sialkot
1904 Peshawar
1907 Calcutta
1910 Cawnpore
1912 Egypt
1914.10 France and Flanders 7 Div
1917.11 Italy 20 Bde, 7 Div
1918.11 Italy
1919 England: Maryborough
1922 Scotland: Fort George
1925 England: Borden 3 Bde
1929 Northern Ireland: Ballykinlar
1933 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
1934 Gibraltar
1936 Singapore
1941.12 Singapore
1942.02.15
captured by the Japanese in Malaya
1943.09 re-formed in UK
1943.09 UK 15 Inf Div
1944.06 NW Europe
1945.09 Libya
1947.05 Scotland
1948.07.12 disbanded (technically "amalgamated" with 1st Battalion)