Cap Badge - 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry In 1908 the unit became the '9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry', when they became part of the 52nd (Lowland) Division in the new Territorial Force (TF). During the First World War another two home-based battalions were recruited, one of which was a Bantam battalion, which were used to supply manpower to the 1st Battalion in France, who served with distinction with the Highland Light Infantry under the 2nd Division at the battles of Festubert and Loos. In May 1916 the battalion was transferred to the 33rd Division and fought at the Somme (at High Wood), Arras and Passchendaele. After the end of the war, the Glasgow Highlanders were disbanded along with the rest of the TF. The story of the Battalion in the Great War would later be dramatised in the 1995 Bill Bryden play, The Big Picnic, starring Jimmy Logan.