KILTED BRAVES
THE Ist CAMERONS IBv Air Mail—Own Correspondent! LONDON. 9th February. It was my good fortune to be brigaded with the Ist Camerons on the Western Front. Naturally they attracted my chief interest during their Majesties* review of the Highland Brigade at Aldershot last w-eek-end. Though not quite up to their incomparably superb wartime physique, they arr a magnificent battalion, and marched past with their old traditional verve and martial panache. Incidentally King George stood well the testing ordeal of Cameron Colonel’s uniform with its tight-fitting tartan breeks. The Camerons were badly mauled in the first fighting in France, but played a glorious role in the final victory push. Their Colonel was asked by G.H.Q. whether his battalion could take the Sensee Canal sector of the Hindenburg Line, which was the stiffest of all, and, if so. how long it might take. He replied that the Camerons would storm it in forty minutes. They actually did it in under ten. floating over the Canal on inflated bicycle tyres. Once the Camerons were across with fixed bayonets “Gerry” found discretion the better part of valour
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 March 1939, Page 8
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