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Contents the Royal Front Cover: 1 RHF Pipes and Drums Highland Fusiliers at Sydney Opera House The Journal of Contents The Royal Front Cover: 1 RHF Pipes and Drums Highland Fusiliers at Sydney Opera House Battle Honours . 2 Editorial . 3 Calendar of Events . .4 Lieutenant Colonel P K Harkness MBE . .5 Location of Serving Officers . .6 Location of Serving Volunteer Officers . .7 Letters to the Editor . .8 Obituaries . .10 Regimental Miscellany . .17 Associations and Clubs . .19 Infantry Training Centre Catterick . .21 1st Battalion Notes . .23 Colour Photographs . .33 52nd Lowland Regiment Notes . .66 SUMMER 2005 The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada . .69 Volume XXIX Number 1 The Lowland Band of the Scottish Division . .69 Ed i t o r : Army Cadet Force . .70 Capt K Gurung MBE Regimental Headquarters . .74 Regimental Headquarters Regimental Recruiting Team . .74 The Royal Highland Fusiliers Articles . .75 518 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3LW The Colonel of the Regiment’s Speech Given at Regimental Dinner Night . .87 Telephone: 0141 332 5639/0961 Royal Regiment of Scotland Information Note – Issue 1 . .88 Fax: 0141 353 1493 E-mail: [email protected] Co l o n e l -in -Ch i e f HRH Prince Andrew, The Duke of York KCVO ADC Printed in Scotland by: Colonel of the Regiment Major General W EB Loudon CBE IAIN M. CROSBIE PRINTERS Beechfield Road, Willowyard Regular Units Industrial Estate, Beith, Ayrshire RH Q 518 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LW KA15 1LN De p o t Infantry Training Centre Catterick Editorial Matter and Illustrations: 1st Battalion Salamanca Barracks, Cyprus, BFPO 53 Crown Copyright 2003 The opinions expressed in the articles Territorial Army Units The 52nd Lowland Regiment, Walcheren Barracks, of this Journal are those of the 122 Hotspur Street, Glasgow G20 8LQ authors, and do not necessarily reflect the policy and views, official or Allied Regiments Prince Alfred’s Guard (CF), PO Box 463, Port Elizabeth, otherwise, of the Regiment or the South Africa MoD. No article may be reproduced in The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada, Cambridge, part or whole in any form without Ontario permission being obtained in writing 11th Bn The Baloch Regiment, Malir Cantonment, from the Editor. Karachi 9, Pakistan 1st Bn The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Wellington Lines, Linton Camp, New Zealand THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS 1 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 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 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. Pu b l i c a t i o n : Half-yearly Su b s c r i p t i o n : £15.00 per annum by banker’s order or Contributions on disk (Microsoft Word) for the Summer Edition to be £6 per copy (plus £1.50 UK postage if sent to RHQ before: posted). Additional postage costs will be (for letters and articles) 09 December 2005. charged to subscribers outside Europe. (for Unit notes) 16 December 2005. Texts not on disk should be sent a fortnight earlier. Ba n k e r s : The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Holt’s Illustrations embedded in texts (Microsoft Word) cannot be used. Farnborough Branch, Victoria Road, Photographs without captions will NOT be used. Farnborough. PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ON THE BACK OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Literary contributions and all correspondence should be addressed to the Editor. 2 THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS The Colonel of The Regiment writes: The first half of 2005 opened with us all beginning to digest the news for the new regiment in Edinburgh Castle and I am confident that there announced in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for is no imminent threat to the continuing roles and functions of 518, Defence in December 2004 about the Future Infantry Structure. At first indeed the general principle that the new RHQ should deal with new sight the consequences of this may seem very unpalatable indeed but I and old with old seems to be gaining support around the Scottish do want to emphasise that the Army, as a whole, is at one of those regiments. Once the new arrangements are in place we will need to watersheds in history when a great deal is changing in a short period in address the question of what 518 should be called in future. I am taken time. 96% of all units in the British Army are either to change shape or by the notion of Home Headquarters, The Royal Highland Fusiliers; the size over the next three years and these changes affect both regular and word Home seems to me to encapsulate everything that is desirable in territorial soldiers. There will be a great deal of painful emotion to ensuring that the ‘golden thread’ remains a feature of our future overcome but I remain convinced that from the Army’s point of view, relationships with our local communities in Glasgow and Ayrshire and it there are more virtues than vices in the plans for the future. also underscores the enduring sense of family and comradeship between both the serving and retired military community. Those of us in the serving community responsible for implementing the changes now have clear orders and we know that by 1 January 2007 we Wearing another hat – as Colonel Commandant of The Scottish are required to create a new regiment to be called The Royal Regiment Division – I very much hope that the findings of the various working of Scotland. It will form as six regular and two TA battalions in early groups will have reached a sufficiently mature stage by October 2005 for 2006 and, in August 2006, it will reduce by one regular battalion as a me to write to every soldier and officer in the Division outlining the way result of the merger of The Royal Scots and The King’s Own Scottish ahead and a copy of that letter will appear in our winter edition of the Borderers. The regular battalions will, thereafter, be styled as follows: Journal. Soldiering in 2005 remains a demanding and dangerous business, both on operations overseas and as we have seen from the The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland events which unfolded in London in July 2005 other dangers are once The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland again on our home shores. Those responsible for security matters have a heavy burden to carry and I hope very much that we, in the wider The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland regimental family, who can play such a central role in keeping peoples’ The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland spirits up in difficult times, will give the men of the 1st Battalion and of 52 Lowland Regiment our support and encouragement. They have all The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal been living, in an organisational sense, under a cloud of uncertainty for Regiment of Scotland some time; that period will start to come to an end by this Christmas At their unanimous request the TA (formerly 52 Lowland and 51 and it will be no time at all before the 1st Battalion returns to Scotland Highland Regiments) will wear exactly the same capbadge as their from Cyprus to its brand new barracks at Penicuik in Midlothian. regular counterparts and they will form as the 7th and 8th Battalions, Details of our proposals for the official opening of the barracks and a The Royal Regiment of Scotland. There is a great deal to be done to battalion ‘at home’ day will appear in the winter edition of the Journal.
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