[1][2] The Stanhope Memorandum of 1888 proposed a comprehensive Mobilisation Scheme for Volunteer units, which would assemble in their own brigades at key points in case of war.

[3][4] Under this scheme a number of Volunteer Battalions of regiments in Southern Scotland would assemble together at Glasgow as the Clyde Brigade.

[5] From 1890 the Glasgow Brigade had the following composition:[5] Sir William Cuninghame retired in 1897, after which the HQ moved to Hamilton, South Lanarkshire and the Officer Commanding 26th and 71st Regimental District (the Cameronians and HLI depot) became ex-officio brigade commander.

[5] All the battalions provided volunteers to serve alongside the Regular regiments in the 2nd Boer War and gained the Battle honour South Africa 1900–02.

[5] These successor brigades were carried through when the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908.