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Kangaroos carrying men of the 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in Moergestel, Netherlands, 26 October 1944. The 6th Battalion was a 2nd Line TA unit that was transferred to the 17th Infantry Brigade, part of the 5th Infantry Division. It served with the division throughout the war in Sicily, Italy, and finally in Northwest Europe. [30]
On 1 June 1945, a second Active Force component of the regiment was mobilized for service in the Pacific theatre of operations designated as the 2nd Canadian Infantry Battalion (The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), CASF. The battalion disbanded on 1 November 1945. [1]
6th/7th Battalion, The Black Watch: 4th/5th Battalion, The Black Watch: 1st Battalion, The Liverpool Scottish: 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) 2nd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers: 11th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders: 4th/5th Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders: 1st Battalion, The ...
After the Second World War, the combined battalion amalgamated with 6th (Caithness and Sutherland) Battalion and 7th (Morayshire) Battalion to form 11th Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's), with its headquarters at the Ferry Road drill hall. [5]
Born the son of Arthur Blair and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Blair was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Seaforth Highlanders on 26 January 1939. [1] [2] He served in the Second World War with the 2nd and 7th Battalions of his regiment. [2]
11th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (until July 1944) 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (until July 1944) 7th Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles; 11th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (from July 1944) 2/6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (from July 1944) 209th Infantry Brigade [36] 11th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
He joined the British Army in 1937, and went to France in 1940 with the 2nd Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders in the British Expeditionary Force. Captured as a prisoner of war during the surrender at St. Valery-en-Caux , he escaped during the march to Germany and returned to France in 1944 as pipe major of the 7th Battalion of the Seaforth ...
1st/7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (machine gun battalion) 152nd (Highland) Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders 5th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 153rd Highland Infantry Brigade 5th Battalion, Black Watch 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders 5th/7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders