Haldane Building

The Haldane Building is a former drill hall at Hill Street in Garnethill, Glasgow.

The building was designed by Horatio Kelson Bromhead as the headquarters of the 1st Volunteer Battalion the Highland Light Infantry[1] and completed in 1897.

[2] This unit became the 5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry (Territorial Force) in 1908.

[3][4] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to Gallipoli and then to the Western Front.

[7] Colours flying, the 5/6th Battalion, the Highland Light Infantry marched from the Hill Street drill hall to amalgamate with the Glasgow Highlanders to form a company of the 52nd Lowland Volunteers at the Hotspur Street drill hall in 1967.