TheJ ournal of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) 2010 Edition 2 SCOTS on Ex GRAND PRIX in Kenya – April 2009 CO 2 SCOTS presents a badge of rank to a local soldier. Lt Oladjins on the prowl. Soldier cooling down. "Band of Brothers." 2 SCOTS soldiers take a break. "Medic!!" Soldiers carrying a casualty. Lt Laura Evans AGC, Det Comd with an orphan. Awaiting. Pte Nicola Fulton AGC jogging at Archers Post. The Journal of The Royal Contents Front Cover: Highland Fusiliers Major Jim Kerr and his son Fusilier Tony Kerr in Kenya. The Representative Colonel’s Foreword .................................................................................2 Honours and Awards .................................................................................................................3 Location of Serving Officers .....................................................................................................4 Location of Serving Volunteer Officers ............................................................................................. 5 Letters to the Editor ...................................................................................................................6 Obituaries ...................................................................................................................................7 2010 Edition Regimental Miscellany ............................................................................................................19 Editor: Capt K Gurung MBE Associations and Clubs ............................................................................................................19 Home Headquarters The Royal Highland Fusiliers The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Second Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland ........25 518 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3LW 52nd Lowland, Sixth Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland ......................................40 Telephone: 0141 332 5639 / 0961 Fax: 0141 353 1493 Allied Regiments ...............................................................................................................................42 Email: [email protected] Regimental Website: www.rhf.org.uk Officer Training Corps ............................................................................................................44 Published by Army Cadet Force ....................................................................................................................45 Home Headquarters .................................................................................................................51 Articles ......................................................................................................................................52 METHOD PUBLISHING Royal Colonel HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York KG Sutherland Press House, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland KW10 6RA Representative Colonel Major General W E B Loudon CBE Telephone: (01408) 633871 Fax: (01408) 633876 Regular Units Editorial Matter and Illustrations: Home Headquarters RHF 518 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LW Crown Copyright 2010 Design and Typography: © Method Publishing 2010 The Royal Highland Fusiliers 2nd Battalion The Royal For the next Edition, please forward Articles, Notes, Photographs and Letters to HHQ RHF by 18 Jan Regiment of Scotland Glencorse Barracks, Milton Bridge, 2011. 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No article may be reproduced in part or whole in of Canada Cambridge, Ontario any form without permission being obtained in 11th Bn The Baloch Regiment Malir Cantonment, Karachi 9, Pakistan writing from the Editor. 1st Bn The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Wellington Lines, Linton Camp, New Zealand THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS 1 Foreword s we look back over recent months we see that the previous Commanding Officers and twelve former RSMs who Army has had another tough year of fighting. The served under the Colours that were presented by Her Royal Ahigh profile of its operational employment has put the Highness, The Princess Margaret in September 1978. I am British Army firmly in the national spotlight. Recent opinion also deeply grateful to Brigadier John Drummond who read polls and welcome home parades show that public regard the lesson before the Colours were laid up and to Lieutenant and respect for its performance is at unprecedented levels. Colonel Ian Shepherd and the Commanding Officer of the Paradoxically this is manifest at a time when first-hand contact 2nd Battalion who did so much to ensure that the Colours with an Army heavily deployed overseas and concentrated in were laid up with style and decorum. large and often remote garrisons at home is difficult to achieve. Such isolation sets it apart from the communities that support The veteran association branches have been active on it and our job in the wider Royal Highland Fusilier family is number of fronts; from assisting with a Tattoo in Inverness, to do what we can – through our involvement with cadets, the to organizing an excellent Assaye/Inkerman Ball at Ingliston Regulars, the Territorial Army and branches of our Veterans’ and helping to fly the flag at the various Remembrance Day Association – to bridge that gap. ceremonies around Scotland and at the Cambridge Branch. You represent such an important strand of the golden thread and I The Infantry has borne 74% of Army killed in action or died am grateful for your continuing support. Please keep up all the of wounds and 67% of all Army casualties on recent operations. excellent work that you do to help bind us together. And, with our own Battalion returning to Afghanistan later this year for its second tour, I hope we will all continue to I could not close the foreword to this edition of the Journal rally round assisting Home Headquarters with its duties of without mentioning the passing of Major General Stuart emotional support to families affected by the scars of combat, Green. He was Adjutant of the Battalion at the time of the with raising funds for benevolence and running on some of 1959 amalgamation and he helped the Commanding Officer the amazing initiatives such as ‘parcels for troops’ which took to ensure in those early days that the ‘best traditions’ of both place when the Battalion was last in Afghanistan. Regiments would be carried forward in the Royal Highland Fusiliers. The legacy of those efforts was that for nearly 50 During 2009, the 2nd Battalion trained in Kenya and years the 1st Battalion and its sister Battalion in the Territorial Otterburn on battalion-level exercises – I will leave Army, set a proud, passionate and professional example to you to judge which was the most popular – and spent others, both in the Army and in our Regimental hinterland. a considerable amount of time supporting other units General Stuart remained an inspirational figure throughout preparing for operations. In a year which was immensely that story and he will be much missed. busy for them they still found time to host a medal parade in early June, run the Rowallan Targe, organize one of the The Battalion will be in the thick of it from the autumn of best inter-company boxing finals I have seen in recent this year in Afghanistan and I am sure you would all join me years and give support to Colonel Bobby and the team from in wishing its new Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Home Headquarters with the Laying Up of Old Colours Dougie Graham and his men; God speed and safe return in the at the Scottish National War Memorial (SNWM) on 27 Spring of 2011. November 2009. I am most grateful to those of you who were able to come along that day, especially to the eight Major General W E B Loudon CBE 2 THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS The Colour Party entering the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle – 27 November 2009. Honours and Awards OPERATIONAL AWARDS The Operational Honours List for service on operations in Afghanistan and Iraq was announced on 19 March 2010. The following officer received an award as shown: Afghanistan OBE Lieutenant Colonel S J Cartwright – CO 3 SCOTS THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS 3 Location of Serving Officers Representative Colonel: Major General W E B Loudon CBE T A Winfield – SO2 Pers Prog, Comd Plans Deputy Representative Colonel: Colonel N T Campbell HQ LAND Upavon F A L Luckyn-Malone – SO2 STAR (GROUND) 6th 1. General Staff List (UK) Div York Colonel N T Campbell – Asst Director Plans HQ N J L Brown – SO2 G1/G4 Plans/EPS HQ APHCS 102 Log Bde & Sig Sqn Colonel P A S Cartwright OBE – Asst Director Cbt Eqpt, Eqpt Gutersloh Div, HQ LAND Colonel P K Harkness MBE – Asst Div Director ICSC(L), CAPTAINS: Defence Academy Shrivenham R R Keating – SO3 G3 CTS Comd GOC Colonel D C Richmond – COS HQ LWC Theatre Tps HQ D D J Mackinnon (Late HLDRS) – Instr RMAS 2. Former RHF Officers in Other Appointments O T G Bowen – 2IC B Coy 2 SCOTS Colonel A L