diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/impl/ResultMapper.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/impl/ResultMapper.java
index 071b992274..3a373f412a 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/impl/ResultMapper.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/impl/ResultMapper.java
@@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ import org.alfresco.rest.api.model.UserInfo;
 import org.alfresco.rest.api.search.context.FacetFieldContext;
 import org.alfresco.rest.api.search.context.FacetFieldContext.Bucket;
 import org.alfresco.rest.api.search.context.SpellCheckContext;
+import org.alfresco.rest.api.search.model.HighlightEntry;
 import org.alfresco.rest.api.search.model.SearchEntry;
 import org.alfresco.rest.framework.resource.parameters.CollectionWithPagingInfo;
 import org.alfresco.rest.api.search.context.SearchContext;
 import org.alfresco.rest.api.search.context.FacetQueryContext;
 import org.alfresco.rest.framework.resource.parameters.Params;
+import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;
 import org.alfresco.service.cmr.search.ResultSet;
 import org.alfresco.service.cmr.search.SpellCheckResult;
 import org.alfresco.util.Pair;
@@ -80,6 +82,7 @@ public class ResultMapper
         Integer total = null;
         List<Node> noderesults = new ArrayList();
         Map<String, UserInfo> mapUserInfo = new HashMap<>(10);
+        Map<NodeRef, List<Pair<String, List<String>>>> hightLighting = results.getHighlighting();
 
         results.forEach(row ->
         {
@@ -87,7 +90,18 @@ public class ResultMapper
             if (aNode != null)
             {
                 float f = row.getScore();
-                aNode.setSearch(new SearchEntry(f));
+                List<HighlightEntry> highlightEntries = null;
+                List<Pair<String, List<String>>> high = hightLighting.get(row.getNodeRef());
+
+                if (high != null && !high.isEmpty())
+                {
+                    highlightEntries = new ArrayList<HighlightEntry>(high.size());
+                    for (Pair<String, List<String>> highlight:high)
+                    {
+                        highlightEntries.add(new HighlightEntry(highlight.getFirst(), highlight.getSecond()));
+                    }
+                }
+                aNode.setSearch(new SearchEntry(f, highlightEntries));
                 noderesults.add(aNode);
             }
             else
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/model/HighlightEntry.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/model/HighlightEntry.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3971b6e88f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/model/HighlightEntry.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*-
+ * #%L
+ * Alfresco Remote API
+ * %%
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 - 2016 Alfresco Software Limited
+ * %%
+ * This file is part of the Alfresco software. 
+ * If the software was purchased under a paid Alfresco license, the terms of 
+ * the paid license agreement will prevail.  Otherwise, the software is 
+ * provided under the following open source license terms:
+ * 
+ * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * 
+ * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ * 
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ * #L%
+ */
+package org.alfresco.rest.api.search.model;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * POJO class representing a HighlightEntry
+ *
+ * @author Gethin James
+ */
+public class HighlightEntry
+{
+    private final String field;
+    private final List<String> snippets;
+
+    public HighlightEntry(String field, List<String> snippets)
+    {
+        this.field = field;
+        this.snippets = snippets;
+    }
+
+    public String getField()
+    {
+        return field;
+    }
+
+    public List<String> getSnippets()
+    {
+        return snippets;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/model/SearchEntry.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/model/SearchEntry.java
index 266563e248..4f83af7da2 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/model/SearchEntry.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/model/SearchEntry.java
@@ -25,16 +25,20 @@
  */
 package org.alfresco.rest.api.search.model;
 
+import java.util.List;
+
 /**
  * POJO class representing the extra information that comes back from Search.
  **/
 public class SearchEntry
 {
     private final Float score;
+    private final List<HighlightEntry> highlight;
 
-    public SearchEntry(Float score)
+    public SearchEntry(Float score, List<HighlightEntry> highlight)
     {
         this.score = score;
+        this.highlight = highlight;
     }
 
     public Float getScore()
@@ -42,5 +46,8 @@ public class SearchEntry
         return score;
     }
 
-    //In future highlighting.
+    public List<HighlightEntry> getHighlight()
+    {
+        return highlight;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/source/test-java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/ResultMapperTests.java b/source/test-java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/ResultMapperTests.java
index 54713ffd12..eeac15ec07 100644
--- a/source/test-java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/ResultMapperTests.java
+++ b/source/test-java/org/alfresco/rest/api/search/ResultMapperTests.java
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ public class ResultMapperTests
                 + "\"facet_counts\":{\"facet_queries\":{\"small\":0,\"large\":0,\"xtra small\":3,\"xtra large\":0,\"medium\":8,\"XX large\":0},"
                 + "\"facet_fields\":{\"content.size\":[\"Big\",8,\"Brown\",3,\"Fox\",5,\"Jumped\",2,\"somewhere\",3]},\"facet_dates\":{},\"facet_ranges\":{},\"facet_intervals\":{}\n" + "    },"
                 + "\"spellcheck\":{\"searchInsteadFor\":\"alfresco\"},"
+                + "\"highlighting\": {"
+                + "  \"_DEFAULT_!800001579e3d1964!800001579e3d1969\": {\"name\": [\"some very <al>long<fresco> name\"],\"title\": [\"title1 is very <al>long<fresco>\"], \"DBID\": \"521\"},"
+                + " \"_DEFAULT_!800001579e3d1964!800001579e3d196a\": {\"name\": [\"this is some <al>long<fresco> text.  It\", \" has the word <al>long<fresco> in many places\", \".  In fact, it has <al>long<fresco> on some\", \" happens to <al>long<fresco> in this case.\"], \"DBID\": \"1475846153692\"}"
+                + "},"
                 + "\"processedDenies\":true, \"lastIndexedTx\":34}";
     public static final Params EMPTY_PARAMS = Params.valueOf((String)null,(String)null,(WebScriptRequest) null);