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RHF06 PAGES 7/12/00 9:28 am Page 1 The Journal of The Royal Contents Front Cover: Highland Fusiliers Troops on Crowberry Ridge September 2000 Infantry Mountain Leaders Cadre Battle Honours..............................................................................................................2 Frontispiece...................................................................................................................3 Editorial........................................................................................................................4 Operational Honours and Awards................................................................................5 Location of Serving Officers .........................................................................................6 Letters to the Editor......................................................................................................8 Notices........................................................................................................................12 Obituaries ...................................................................................................................20 Regimental Miscellany ................................................................................................37 Associations and Clubs ...............................................................................................46 Army Training Regiment Glencorse............................................................................48 Infantry Training Centre Catterick .............................................................................49 1st Battalion Notes .....................................................................................................52 52nd Lowland Regiment Notes ..................................................................................85 WINTER 2000 Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities’ Officers’ Training Corps .................................97 Volume XXIV, Number 2 The Lowland Band of The Scottish Division...............................................................97 Manager and Editor: The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming...................................98 Maj A L Mack Regimental Headquarters Army Cadet Force.....................................................................................................100 The Royal Highland Fusiliers 518 Sauchiehall Street Regimental Information Team ..................................................................................103 Glasgow G2 3LW Regimental Gazette ...................................................................................................103 Telephone: 0141 332 5639 Fax: 0141 353 1493 Articles......................................................................................................................104 Reader Survey ...........................................................................................................124 Published by Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Princess Margaret CI GCVO Colonel of the Regiment Major General A I Ramsay CBE DSO METHOD PUBLISHING Sutherland Press House, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland KW10 6RA Regular Units Telephone: (01408) 633871 RHQ 518 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LW Fax: (01408) 633876 Depots Army Training Regiment Glencorse to whom all enquiries regarding advertising Infantry Training Centre Catterick should be addressed. 1st Battalion Fort George, Ardersier, Inverness IV2 7TE Printed in Scotland by: HIGHLAND PRINTERS Territorial Army Units 52 Lowland Regiment, Walcheren Barracks, Editorial Matter and Illustrations: 122 Hotspur Street, Glasgow G20 8LQ Crown Copyright 2000 Design and Typography: Allied Regiments Prince Alfred’s Guard (CF), PO Box 463, © Method Publishing 2000 Port Elizabeth, South Africa The opinions expressed in the articles of this The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada, Cambridge, Journal are those of the authors, and do not Ontario necessarily reflect the policy and views, official or otherwise, of the Regiment or the MoD. 11th Bn The Baloch Regiment, Malir Cantonment, No article may be reproduced in part or whole in Karachi 9, Pakistan any form without permission being obtained in writing from the Editor. 1st Bn The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Wellington Lines, Linton Camp, New Zealand THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS 1 RHF06 PAGES 7/12/00 9:28 am Page 2 Battle Honours ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Belleisle, Carnatic, Hindoostan, Sholinghur, Mysore, Martinique 1794, Seringapatam, Cape of Good Hope 1806, Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Almaraz, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Bladensburg, Waterloo, South Africa 1851-53, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Central India, South Africa 1879, Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt 1882, Burma 1885-87, Tirah, Modder River, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902. Gibraltar 1780-83, Gulf 1991, Assaye. WORLD WAR I (Those in bold print are on the Queen’s Colour) 49 Battalions Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassee 1914, Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18, Langemarck 1914, 17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, St Julien, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916, 18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozieres, Flers-Courcellette, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, 18, Arras 1917, 18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, 18, Arleux, Messines 1917, 18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendale, Cambrai 1917, 18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosieres, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Bethune, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal Du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, 18, Macedonia 1916-18, Helles, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916- 17, Gaza, EI Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tell ’Asur, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut Al Amara 1917, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1916-18, Murmansk 1919, Archangel 1919. WORLD WAR II (Those in bold print are on the Queen’s Colour) 28 Battalions Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, Withdrawal to Cherbourg, Odon, Fontenay Le Pesnil, Cheux, Defence of Rauray, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Falaise, Le Vie Crossing, La Touques Crossing, Seine 1944, Aarat, Nederrijn, Best, Le Havre, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Scheldt, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Roer, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Moyland Wood, Weeze, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Dreirwalde, Aller, Ulzen, Bremen, Artlenberg, N.W. Europe 1940, 44-45, Jebel Shiba, Barentu, Keren, Massawa, Abyssinia 1941, Gazala, Cauldron, Mersa Matruh, Fuka, North Africa 1940-42, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943, Sangro, Garigliano Crossing, Minturno, Anzio, Advance to Tiber, Italy 1943-44, 45, Madagascar, Adriatic, Middle East 1942, 44, Athens, Greece 1944-45, North Arakan, Razabil, Pinwe, Shweli, Mandalay, Burma 1944-45. Publication: Half-yearly Contributions for the Summer 2001 Edition to RHQ Subscription: £10.00 per annum by bankers order or £5 per BEFORE 25 April please if on disc. If hard copy only, copy and postage. £1.50 extra for subscribers outside Europe. BEFORE 11 April please. (Discs using Microsoft Word (Version 3) are best for us.) Please also send LOTS of Bankers: The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Holt’s Farnborough photographs, and hand-drawn cartoons and maps etc too. Branch, Victoria Road, Farnborough. It will be useful if the captions for these are listed at the end Literary contributions and all correspondence should be of the texts, both on disc and hard copy. Any writing on the addressed to the Editor. back of photographs should be on a peel-off slip. 2 THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS RHF06 PAGES 7/12/00 9:28 am Page 3 Spot the Jocks? The B Company 52nd Lowland Regiment party and some of their hosts on Exercise Maple Fusilier. THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS 3 RHF06 PAGES 7/12/00 9:28 am Page 4 For this edition of the Journal, which is the first since the the spice of intermittent operational tours will allow our Battalion’s return (after thirty-odd years) to Fort George, the young Corporals and Captains to practice for real. The bane Colonel of the Regiment writes: of past Fort George service has been the Regular Army Assistance Table and public duties, which eventually sap the “ he old and bold who braved the fuel shortage – or energies and enthusiasms of the soldiers who undertake them – who had not too far to go to visit Inverness – have but 1 RHF will be spared most if not all of that. T been much impressed with the First Battalion’s new home at Fort George. Since 1 RHF last served there, nearly The Regiment has returned to Scotland with a high reputation 30 years ago, the Fort has undergone a series of excellent renewed in Bosnia and Kosovo, but like the rest of the renovations. The ugly tin shacks outside the southern demi- infantry we are not up to strength, in officers or men, and it bastion, which once housed the MT offices, have gone. So will be vital to put that right. Too much time and regimental have the fuel tanks, the corrugated iron gymnasium, the damp money is being spent upon recruiting, but this is unavoidable married quarters, all the utilitarian concrete eyesores and even if we are to remain a front-line battalion. We are well repre- the tall cookhouse chimney. In their place batteries of cannon sented at Sandhurst, at Glencorse, and in the Territorial