6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
The Highland Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. It took part in the First and Second World Wars, until it was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1959 to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) which later merged with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, becoming the 2nd Battalion of the new regiment.
The 5th and 6th Battalions landed in France as part of the 157th Brigade in the 52nd (Lowland) Division in June 1940; after evacuation from Cherbourg later in the month, they landed in Belgium in October 1944 and took part in Operation Infatuate in November 1944 and the subsequent capture of Bremen in April 1945.
Name: Adams, David
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No. 3316025
Unit: D. Company
Missing since: 06-10-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Thomas and Ellen Adams.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Believed to have been wounded/killed in the Bemmel-Haalderen area.
Name: Gardner, John Reddie
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14678380
Unit: A. Company
Missing since: 06-10-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gardner, of Glasgow.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed in the Bemmel-Haalderen
area.
Name: Burbidge, Thomas Robert
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14607446
Unit: D Company
Missing since: 06-10-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Andrew S and Christina Burdidge (nee Mclean).
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed in the Bemmel-Haalderen
area.
Name: Martin, Kenneth
Rank: Private
Age: 35
No. 14717642
Unit: D Company
Missing since: 06-10-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Samuel and Jessie McLean Martin.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed in the Bemmel-Haalderen
area.
Name: Burke, John
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 3328328
Unit: HQ Company
Missing since: 06-10-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Thomas and Mary Burke, of Glasgow.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Bemmel-Haalderen area.