Glasgow Highlanders

Glasgow Highlanders
Cap Badge of the Glasgow Highlanders
Active	1868–1973
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Territorial Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Line infantry
Part of	Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers 1868–1881 Highland Light Infantry 1881–1959 Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) 1959–1967 52nd Lowland Volunteers 1967–1973
Garrison/HQ	Glasgow
Motto(s)	Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No One Assails Me With Impunity) (Latin)
March	Quick - Highland Laddie
Engagements	Battle of Modder River Battle of Festubert Battle of Loos Battle of the Somme Battle of Arras Battle of Passchendaele Battle of Normandy Battle of the Scheldt Operation Plunder
Insignia
Tartan	MacKenzie Tartan

The Glasgow Highlanders was a former infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Territorial Force, later renamed the Territorial Army. The regiment eventually became a Volunteer Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) in 1881. The regiment saw active service in both World War I and World War II. In 1959 the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment). The Glasgow Highlanders was later amalgamated into the 52nd Lowland Volunteers in 1967.

The regiment was 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 (Royal Highland Regiment). 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 the Childers Reforms of 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. The personnel 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. The 5th Battalio, later the 9th Battalion, Glasgow Highlanders, always wore the Government (Black Watch) tartan and their own cap badge, and never wore the Mackenzie tartan as the rest of the HLI.