Service of a Soldier
Private |
Infantryman 'D' Company (Peebles Company), 8th TA Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), enlisted May 1939. |
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| Private | Signaller “HQ” Coy, 8 RS (mobilised on 1st September 1939 for the duration of the Second World War). | ||
| Lance-Corporal | Signal Pl, 8 RS. | ||
| Corporal | Signal Pl, 8 RS | ||
| Corporal | Training Cadre attached RAF Bomber Command, Waterbeach, Cambridge (instruct first echelons RAF Regiment). | ||
| Officer-Cadet | 163 Officer Cadet Training Unit | ||
| Second-Lieutenant | Platoon Training Officer, RS Company, 9th (Holding) Bn KOSB. | ||
| Second-Lieutenant | Signals Officer, 9 KOSB. | ||
| Lieutenant | Understudy Signals Officer, 7th/9th (Highlanders) Bn RS. | ||
| Lieutenant | OC 18 Platoon, 7th/9th RS |
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| Lieutenant, Captain | Intelligence Officer, 7th/9th RS | ||
| Captain | Wounded, Heinsberg (Germany), evacuated Field Hospital then General Military Hospital (Brussels), air ambulance and ambulance train to Ministry Pensions Hospital (Malvern, Worcs.) | ||
| Captain | Holding Battalion, Redford Barracks, Edinburgh. | ||
| Captain | Scottish Command, OC Advance Party establish Transit Camp, Duddingston, Edinburgh, for troops onwards to Norway. | ||
| Captain | Signals Officer, 7th/9th RS (Magdeburg, Germany). | ||
| Captain | Adjutant, 7th/9th RS (Germany). | ||
| Captain | War-time Battalion placed in suspended animation; returned The Colours to Glencorse Barracks (Penicuik); posted All Ranks and with Quartermaster returned Arms, Equipment, Transport. | ||
| Captain | Staff Captain, General Headquarters 21st Army Group 2nd Echelon. | ||
| Captain | Demobilised 22nd March 1947 (Honorary Rank of Captain). |
Post-War Service
Lieutenant, Captain |
Signals Officer, 7th/9th (Highlanders) Bn (TA) RS (1947). |
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| Major | OC 'HQ' Company and Signals Officer, 7th/9th (TA) RS. | ||
| Major | OC “D” Company, 7th/9th (TA) RS. | ||
| Major | Battalion Second-in-Command, 7th/9th (TA) RS. | ||
| Major | Retired from the Territorial Army (Honorary Rank of Major), July 1957. |
Deputy Lieutenant, County of the West Midlands 1975 TA Decoration 1953 Commander, Order of Merit, Italian Republic 1973 Commander, Order of the British Empire 1977 |
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