Service of a Soldier

 
Private
Infantryman 'D' Company (Peebles Company), 8th TA Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), enlisted May 1939.
 
  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
 
  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).
 
  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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