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From: 5th Camerons, The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders 1939 - 1946

5th Camerons,
Cuxaven, 24th May 1945


5th Camerons, Possibly 'D' company
Cuxaven 1945.


5th Camerons pipes and drums 'Beat Retreat'
Cuxaven 1945.






5th Camerons on parade,
Cuxaven 1945

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From: 5th Camerons, The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders 1939 - 1946

5th Camerons, 'A' company Sergeants, CSM. Hugh Fraser holding company penant.
Germany 1945. Sgt. George Sands (right)


Old and new recruits,
Germany 1945.


5th Camerons Divisional games winning team
Germany 1945


5th Camerons Pioneer Platoon


Kenny "Porky" Hearns (left) Jack MacDougal (centre)


Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
s'Hertogenbosch, Holland, December 1944.
left to right: Sgt. Wally Semple, Robert (Bobby Mac) MacIntosh. Sgt. Jimmy Petrie

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From: 5th Camerons, The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders 1939 - 1946

"A" company, 5th Camerons,
Germany 1945


5th Camerons,
Germany 1945


5th Camerons church parade 1944/45


5th Cameron Officers on church parade


5th Camerons Officers with battalion Padre


Major Lee with battalion padre G Elliot?
Cuxaven 1945

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From: 5th Camerons, The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders 1939 - 1946

5th Camerons, possibly 'A' company.
Germany 1945




5th Cameron Officers
1945


Officers & NCO's of 5th Camerons,
Cuxaven, Germany, 1945


5th battalion Corporals,
Queens Own Cameron Highlanders ,
Cuxaven 1945

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From: 5th Camerons, The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders 1939 - 1946

L/Cpl. Arthur Crockett with Pte. W Sinclair.
Catterick camp 1937, Liverpool Scottish


Arthur Crockett with Kathleen,
Douglas, Isle of Man, 1938.
They were to marry a year later.


Sgt. Arthur Crockett,
Liverpool Scottish 1940


Signal Corporal Sidney Lawson.
5th Camerons

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From: 5th Camerons, The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders 1939 - 1946

Cpl. John Henry Raine.
5th Camerons

John H Raine served with 5th battalion Queens Own Cameron Highlanders from training at Fort George to landing in Normandy and the battles through to Hamburg, Germany. His Mother being Dutch, John Raine contacted an Uncle in Eindhoven, during the liberation of Holland, trading cigarettes for food and giving the food to his needy Dutch relatives.


5th Camerons, location unknown.
Cpl J.H. Raine (2nd from left) with back to camera.


5th Camerons, Bob & 'Porky' (Sgt Kenny Hearn)
s'Hertogenbosch Holland 1944.

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Men of 2nd Battalion ca. 1941 in East Anglia (Pte. George Sands center back row.)


The 2nd Battalion The Liverpool Scottish, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders served from 3 September 1939 to 13 September 1942 in 165 (Liverpool) Infantry brigade, the junior brigade within 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division. On 13 September 1942 the battalion was allocated to 218 Independent Infantry Brigade, where it served until 9 October 1942 when the brigade was disbanded.
The 2nd Liverpool Scottish was then transferred to the Royal Artillery as the 89th Anti-Tank Regiment, RA. They were stationed in the UK for the duration of hostilities, serving in 47th (London) Division from 9 November 1943 until 6 August 1944 and later being re-assigned to 55th (West Lancashire) Division from 21 October 1944 until 29 August 1945.

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Aberdeen University OTC WRAC 1953

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Winston Churchill watching the 51st Division massed pipe bands
5th March 1945

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Thomas Law was the chief of the Johannesburg Caledonian Society, who assisted the Marquis of Tullibardine in recruiting for the Scottish Horse during the Boer War 1899 - 1902. When the Marquis returned to Scotland in late 1902, Law continued the Marquises initiatives to form a powerful regiment on the Witwatersrand, the Transvaal Scottish Volunteers.