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Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock (1890-1958). The Cameron Highlanders, The Depot. One of four VC winners re-copied for a composite picture in January 1929. Pollock was 25 years old, and a corporal in the The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: On 27th September 1915 near the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, at about noon the enemy's bombers in superior numbers were successfully working up Little Willie Trench towards the Redoubt. Corporal Pollock, after obtaining permission, got out of the trench alone and walked along the top edge with complete disregard for danger, and compelled the enemy bombers to retire by bombing them from above. He was under heavy machine-gun fire the whole time, but contrived to hold up the progress of the Germans for an hour before he was at length wounded. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Regimental Museum of Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George.
Reference: 27563c
Corporal James Dalgleish Pollo...
Private Ross Tollerton, Ist Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (1890-1931). The Cameron Highlanders, The Depot. One of four VC winners re-copied for a composite picture in January 1929. Tollerton was 24 years old when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: On 14th September 1914 at the First Battle of the Aisne, Private Tollerton carried a wounded officer (Lieutenant J.S.M. Matheson), under heavy fire, as far as he was able, into a place of greater safety. Then, although he himself was wounded in the head and hand, he struggled back to the firing line where he remained until his battalion retired. He then returned to the wounded officer and stayed with him for three days until they were both rescued. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Regimental Museum of Queen's Own Highlanders, Fort George.
Reference: 27563b
Private Ross Tollerton, Ist Ba...
Major Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton (1863-1915). The Cameron Highlanders, The Depot. One of four VC winners copied for a composite picture in January 1929. Commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1884, he served in the Sudan, Gibraltar, Malta, South Africa, North China, and India, attaining the rank of major by 1901. He retired in 1912, whilst remaining on the reserve list. In 1914 he was recalled and promoted to a temporary Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Reserve of Officers, commanding the 6th Battalion. He was awarded the VC for the following action: On 25th September 1915 during operations on Hill 70 at the Battle of Loos, Douglas-Hamilton, when the battalions on his right and left had retired, rallied his own battalion again and again and led his men forward four times. The last time he led all that remained, about 50 men, in a most gallant manner, and was killed at their head. It was due to his bravery, and splendid leadership that the line at this point was able to check the enemy's advance. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Highlanders' Museum in Fort George. He is also depicted in the oil painting by Joseph Gray of the 6th Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at the Battle of Loos, 1915, which hangs in the museum.
Reference: 27563a
Major Angus Falconer Douglas-H...
Copy of a photograph for Mrs Mackenzie showing Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery awarding a medal in s'Hertogenbosch, Holland in December 1944. The signature is Montgomery's own. See also image 124.
Reference: 083
Copy of a photograph for Mrs M...
Hat band denotes HMS Armadale Castle. The SS Armadale Castle was a passenger steamship built in 1903 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland. She was requisitioned from the Union Castle Line as an armed merchant cruiser in the Royal Navy in August 1914 and was used as a supply, transport and patrol vessel. She was returned to commercial service in 1919 and laid up at Netley in 1935, reprieved for one voyage, then scrapped in 1936 at Blyth. #
Reference: H-0204a
Hat band denotes HMS Armadale ...
Lance Corporal Stephen.
Reference: 42809
Lance Corporal Stephen. ...
Lance Corporal W. Smith, Seaforth Headquarters, Fort George.
Reference: 33273
Lance Corporal W. Smith, Seafo...
Mrs Ross, Balnain. Soldier has been isolated from group to make a new solo photo.
Reference: 33267b
Mrs Ross, Balnain. Soldier has...
Private W. Ross, Cameron Highlanders, aged 17 years 4 months in 1938. Copy for Mrs Ross, Balnain. Private Ross completed his recruit training with Aisne Squad at the Depot Cameron Highlanders at Cameron Barracks in 1939.
Reference: 33267a
Private W. Ross, Cameron Highl...
Portrait. The sailor's hatband reads HMML 380. #
Reference: 22229b
Portrait. The sailor's hat...
Portrait. The sailor's hatband reads HMML 380. #
Reference: 22229a
Portrait. The sailor's hat...
E.P.C Green, Torridon House, Inverness.
Reference: 934e
E.P.C Green, Torridon House, I...