1st Battalion, 71st Regiment of Foot 1777-1881

1st Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry 1881-1959

1777.12.19 1st Battalion, 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot
raised in Scotland (embodied at Elgin)
1778 Scotland
1779 at sea
1779.05 West Africa: Gambia
at sea
1780? India: Madras
1780.09 Mysore war flank coys captured at Conjeveram 10 Sep. 1780
1781.09 India
1782.06 Mysore war
1783 absorbed personnel of disbanded 2nd Battalion
1783.12 India
1786.04.26 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders)
1790 Mysore war
1792.02 India
1793.08 Pondicherry
1793.08 India
1795.08 Ceylon
1796.02 Ceylon
179u India
1798 effectives transferred to 74th Regt, and cadre sent home to re-form
1798 at sea
1798 Scotland
1802 Scotland
1802 Scotland
1804.10 1st Battalion, 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders)
redesignated upon formation of 2nd Battalion
1805 at sea
1806.01 Cape of Good Hope
1806.01 Cape of Good Hope
1806 at sea
1806.06 South America
1806.08.12 captured by the Spanish at Buenos Aires, and subsequently repatriated
Ireland
1808.07.12 at sea
1808.08.01 Portugal: Mondego Bay
1809 Peninsular war
1809.01.16 at sea (embarked at Corunna)
1809.01 England
1809.07 at sea
1809 Holland: Walcheren
1809 England
1810.09.15 at sea
1810.09.26 Portugal: Lisbon
1810 Peninsular war
1814.04 France
1814.07 at sea
1814.07 Ireland
1815.04 Belgium: Ostend
1815.06 Waterloo
1815.06 France: Paris Army of Occupation
1815.12.24 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders)
redesignated upon disbandment of 2nd Battalion
1818.10 at sea (embarked at Calais)
1818.10.29 England: Dover
18uu Ireland
1824 Canada
1832 Bermuda
1834 Canada
1838 Canada
1843 West Indies
1847 UK
1853 Ionian Islands: Corfu
1855.02 Crimea
1856 Malta
1857 at sea (via Egypt)
1858 India: Bombay
1858 Mhow
1858 Sepoy rebellion
1858 India
1863.10 Umbeyla campaign
1863.12 India: Rawalpindi
1865 UK
1868 Gibraltar & Malta
1880 England
1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
1881 Scotland: Glasgow
1883 Ireland: Dublin
1885 Belfast
1889 Curragh
1890 England: Dover
1894 England: Aldershot
1895 Malta
1898 Crete
1898.12 at sea
1898.12 England: Devonport
1899 Portsmouth
1899.10 South Africa 3 Bde
1903 Egypt
1904 India: Chakratta
1906 Dinapore
1910 Lucknow
1913 Ambala
1914.10 Egypt
1914.12.01 France and Flanders Lahore Div
1916.01.06 Mesopotamia
1917.01 Tigris Defences
1917.09 Mesopotamia 17 Ind Div
1919 Egypt
1921 Ireland: Ballykinlar
1921 Scotland: Edinburgh
1923 Ireland: Belfast
1924 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1929 Malta
1930 (Palestine)
1930 Malta
1931 England: Dover
1935 Scotland: Fort George
1939.09 UK 42 Inf Div

World War 2

1939-1945
1940.04 France and Belgium 42 Inf Div
1940.06 UK
1943.10 UK 53 Inf Div
1944.06 NW Europe 53 Inf Div
1946 Egypt
1947 Palestine
1948.05 England: Colchester 19 Bde
1948 Scotland: Glasgow
1948.09.23 amalgamate