Orders, Decorations and Medals

6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry Officers’ Shooting Medal, an impressive and substantial oval silver medal with ornate scroll suspension, 105 x 71mm., obverse bearing the regimental crest, crossed rifles and scroll engraved, ‘Shooting Medal’, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented by Capt. J. J. Lean to the Officers 6th Battn. Highland Light Infantry 1929’, with hallmarks for Birmingham 1929 and the manufacturer’s mark, ‘AS & Co.’, with seven bars pendant from the medal, inscribed, ‘Lieut. G. A. Cree 1929’, ‘2/Lieut. A. C. Stevenson 1930’, ‘2/Lieut. W. C. Taylor 1931’, ‘2/Lieut. W. C. Taylor 1932’, ‘Lieut. A. C. Stevenson 1933’, ‘No Shoot 1934’, ‘Girvan 1935 Lieut. N. G. Reid’, good very fine, rare £150-200

The origins of the 6th (City of Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry date back to 1861 and the raising of the 25th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, which unit was itself an amalgam of several hitherto independent Volunteer rifle companies that had been formed from amongst the numerous Clyde shipbuilding and engineering yards. in 1880, the 25th was renumbered as 6th, and in 1887 became 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. In 1908 the battalion became 6th (City of Glasgow) Battalion Territorial Force. While many volunteers of the battalion served in the South African War on 1 year engagements, the battalion as a whole did not see active overseas service until the Great War, during the course of which 6/H.L.I. served at Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and on the Western Front, in which latter campaign Corporal D. Hunter earned a Victoria Cross. Between 1939-45, 6/H.L.I. served in the 52nd Lowland Division and fought in the bitter North West Europe campaign of 1944-45. In 1947 the battalion merged with other TA battalions of the regiment to form 5th/6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry.