17th Battalion The Highland Light Inf WWI

[hubberston]

I hold 2 vols hard back of the 17th Service Battalion The highland Light Inf "The OUTPOST from my Grandfathers effects. Can anybody tell me what they actually did during the WWI..Grandfather was a Act Capt Med discharged France 1918

[Peter Goodey]

Have you tried the regimental museum?

rhf.org.uk/rhf/

If you go to the National Archives, you can see the war diaries

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/c...accessmethod=4

You can see from the catalogue that they were part of the 32nd Division which you could Google for.

For example
http://www.
1914-1918.net/32div.htm

[Coromandel]

You can download a book called 'The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) record of war service, 1914-1918' as a very large PDF file from here:

http://www.
archive.org/details/17thHLI00glasuoft

[hubberston]

Hi Peter...Many thanks for the information. Allan