64th (2nd Highland) Division

64th (2nd Highland) Division
Active1914 – 1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
RoleHome defence
SizeDivision
Garrison/HQEast Anglia, United Kingdom
Service
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Herman Landon[1]
Henry Lukin[2]
John Edward Capper[3]

The 64th (2nd Highland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised during the Great War. The division was formed in late 1914 as a second-line Territorial Force formation which served on home defence duties throughout the war.

The division was formed as a duplicate of the 51st (Highland) Division in 1914, composed primarily of soldiers from Highland regiments recruited in northern and central Scotland. By 1917-18, however, it had become a training unit composed of conscripts from throughout Britain. It remained on home defence and training duties in Scotland and England throughout the war, and disbanded in early 1919 following the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

  1. ^ LANDON, Maj.-Gen. Herman James Shelley, in Who Was Who (2008)
  2. ^ Falls, Cyril. "Lukin, Sir Henry Timson (1860–1925)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34631. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Quarterly Army List for the quarter ending 30th June 1919. London: HMSO. 1919. pp. 36–7.