APPENDIX I

TABLE showing Order of Battle of the Ninth (Scottish) Division

CAVALRY

“B” Squadron, Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry.
Transferred to Corps, May 1916.

CYCLISTS

9th Division Company. Transferred to Corps, May 1916.

ROYAL ARTILLERY

R.F.A. Brigades
L.LI.LII.LIII.9th Heavy Battery.
Transferred to
Corps, June 1915.
Became
A.F.A. Bde.
8/1/17.

(Howitzer).
One battery sent to the 7th Div. 9/6/15. Reconstituted April 1916, the three batteries exchanging with D/L., D/LI., and D/LII. Bde. broken up 11/9/16 to complete L. and LI. to 6-gun batteries.

In April 1916 D/L., D/LI., and D/LII. were taken away from their own Bdes. and formed into the LIII. Bde. R.F.A. The first three Bdes. had thus one Howitzer and three 18-pounder batteries.
All batteries were then on a 4-gun basis.

ROYAL ENGINEERS

63rd, 64th, and 90th Field Companies. 9th Signal Company.

INFANTRY

26th Highland Brigade

8th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
7th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s).
8th Bn. The Gordon Highlanders. Transferred to 15th Div. 7/5/16.
5th Bn. The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders.
10th Bn. Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland) Highlanders.
From 27th Bde. 3/5/16. Transferred to 32nd Div. 15/2/18.

27th (Lowland) Brigade

11th Bn. The Royal Scots. 12th Bn. The Royal Scots.
6th Bn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers. Transferred to 15th Div. 8/5/16.
10th Bn. Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland) Highlanders.
To 26th Bde. 3/5/16.

6th Bn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers. From 28th Bde. 6/5/16.
9th Bn. The Scottish Rifles (Cameronians). From 28th Bde. 6/5/16.
Transferred to 14th Div. 5/2/18.

28th Brigade

6th Bn. The King’s Own Scottish Borderers. } Transferred to 27th
9th Bn. The Scottish Rifles (Cameronians). } Bde. 6/5/16.
10th Bn. Highland Light Infantry. } Transferred to 15th Div.
11th Bn. Highland Light Infantry. } 14/5/16.

The 28th Bde. was broken up 6/5/16, and replaced by the

South African Brigade

1st Regt. 2nd Regt. 3rd Regt. 4th Regt. South African Infantry.
Disbanded (South African Scottish).
3/2/18.

On 24/4/18 the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Regiments were amalgamated, and formed the South African Composite Battalion; and the brigade, composed of this battalion, the 2nd Bn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers from the 30th Div. 25/4/18, and the 9th Scottish Rifles from the 14th Div. 13/4/18, was known as the 28th (South African) Brigade. The South African Brigade left the 9th Division in September 1918 and its place was taken by the

28th Brigade (reorganised September 1918)

2nd Bn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
9th Bn. The Scottish Rifles.
1st Bn. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment. From L. of C. 13/9/18.
Previously with the 29th Division.

PIONEERS

9th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany’s).

MACHINE-GUN CORPS

26th Company, 27th Company, 28th Company, 197th Company,
formed 1/1/16. formed 22/12/15. formed 1/1/16. joined from
England 13/12/16.

9th Battalion, formed 1/3/18.

ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS[141]

104th, 105th, 106th, and 107th Companies.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

27th 28th 29th Field Ambulances.

Replaced April 1916 by the South African Field Ambulance, which in September 1918 was replaced, first by the 76th (25th Div.), and then by the 2/1st (East Lancs.) Field Ambulance.