Officer's dirk to The Highland Light Infantry. Original scabbard with white metal mounts with cairngorm style traditional pommel. Regimental badge and ferrule in silver and gilt applied to the top mount. Finely etched blade in stainless steel marked one side with foliage and thistle, sunrays, Queen Victoria Crown, HLI over bugle, regimental badge, Assaye, elephant, VR, foliage, thistles and makers name Wiseman Sackvilles, London. On other side of blade battle honours: Hindoostan, Assaye, Seringapatam, Cape of Good Hope 1806, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Almaraz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo, S. Africa 1851-2-3, Sevastopol, Central India, Egypt 1882, Tel-El- Bebir. Matching companion knife and fork ensuite (siilver). Dirk: 46cm.
The maker Mark Wiseman was a regimnetal tailor and traded at 43 Sackville Street London. Listing is found in the Post Office commercial direcrory of 1891.
Ref 24. The Highland Light Infantry
1881 - 1899
The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881.
- 1881 - Raised as the Highland Light Infantry, from the amalgamation of the 71st (Highland) Light Infantry (as the 1st Battalion) and the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot (as the 2nd Battalion) as the city regiment of Glasgow
- 1923 (or 1920) - the regiment's title was expanded to the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment). Anecdote: David Niven (actor, author) was commissioned into the regiment in 1930 and served with the 2nd Battalion.
- 1947 - Became a kilted regiment
- 1959 - Became the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) following the amalgamation with the Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 2004 - Became The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)