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The 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders joined the 227th Infantry Brigade on 15 July 1943 and served there until it was disbanded on 31 August 1945.
Regimental tartan is 42nd Government (Black Watch)
Cap badge:
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders white metal cap badge on a 3" square tartan patch.
Sleeve insignia:
Red and white diced flash
15th (Scottish) divisional sign
(3) scarlet (infantry) arm-of service strips
Aboard an amphiboius assault craft in Seaford, England. The officer in front wears a woollen hat called a "cap comforter", and per regimental dress regulations, a regimental striped necktie in the colours of the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.Major General and Provost
- Major General Andrew Graham CBE, Representative Colonel of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and Provost Derek Stewart with the Freedom of Clackmannanshire scroll.
- Image date: Saturday 13th May 2006
Biography of Calum Martin McIntyre
On 1 August 1939, Calum McIntyre joined the 2nd Glasgow Highlanders as a Territorial. He was commissioned in the 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in May 1940, and joined the regiment at Ismailia in Egypt.
Calum Martin McIntyre took part in the First African Campaign of General Wavell, and he was killed in action on 10 December 1940, at Sidi Barrani.
Harry and John Lauder, about 1916. The First World War is in progress, and John is a Captain in the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment. |  |  |
John Lauder and his fiancee, Mildred Thomson (and Mildred's mother?), around the time of their engagement in 1916. |  | |
Harry says goodbye to John, possibly for the last time. |  |
A "charge" (for the benefit of the camera) of the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment, led by Captain John Lauder. About 1914 or 1915. |  |
| John Lauder was killed near Poziers, France, on December 26, 1916. Shown here are his temporary and permanent grave markers. |  |  |
Harry Lauder, at Lauder Ha', near Strathaven, about 1948. The portrait of his son, John Lauder, was painted by Cowan Dobson in 1915. The painting was sold at auction in 1966 when the Lauder estate was liquidated. In 2007 the painting resurfaced as part of the estate sale of Mr. Wayne Glasgow of San Francisco. This time it was purchased by my Scottish cousin, Gregory Lauder-Frost, who is descended from Harry's brother Matt Lauder. It suffered some damage over the years, but Gregory has restored the painting to its original condition. |  |  |
Updated - Sunday, 19 January, 2003
The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial, on the Somme battlefields, is positioned almost directly opposite the site of the famous Hawthorn Mine crater (the explosion of which was filmed at 7.20am on 1 July 1916: click here to view the footage, QuickTime .MOV format, 719kb). It is also adjacent to the Sunken Lane where cameraman Geoffrey Malins filmed men of the 1st Lancashire Division on the morning of 1 July preparing to go over the top.
The memorial - a Celtic cross - was unveiled in 1923 by the Duke of Argyll. It lists details of the actions of the 8th Argyllshire Battalion, Princess Louise's Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, the 51st Highland Division, the 61st Division, and the 15th Scottish Division.
The memorial notes that during its service in the field (from 1 May 1915 until the end of the war) 51 officers and 831 NCOs and men were killed. 105 officers and 2,527 NCOs and men were wounded. A Gaelic inscription on the memorial reads "friends are good on the day of the battle".
Ready to stop the Red Hordes - Berlin, 1969. Private Archie Mac Laine of the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), at the controls of an FV -432 in the divided city of Berlin during the Cold War. This vehicle was the most common tracked vehicle in the British Army in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was similar to the Canadian M113.
Private Mac Laine served in the Argylls - the British Army affiliate Regiment of the Calgary Highlanders - for 27 years and at one point served alongside the late Warrant Officer Bruce Waterhouse, who served a tour of duty with the Argylls including service in Northern Ireland. Private Mac Laine's greetings can be found on the Transitions 2005 page.
The Warrant Officer Bruce Waterhouse Memorial Award is presented each year to the person deemed most worthy by the Warrant Officers of the Regiment, more information can be found on the Regimental Trophies page.
Tells the Pow's story,usually in their own words.
Warren's work on the Malaya campaign ending with the fall of Singapore.A bloody,desperate campaign as highlighted by the casualty figures the author presents--the British defenders lost more killed than wounded.
The oral history of what was considered the best British battalion in Malaya--the Jocks of the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.Fighting back to Singapore they had their numbers boostered by the surviving Royal Marines of HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales.
An excellent account of the jungle fighting in Malaya.
