!MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE
MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan
MacLeod Society, 1968, pp. 45-46.
Born in London on 10th October 1916, was educated at Wellington
College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Commissioned in
the Royal Artillery on 27th August 1936, he joined the 22nd Field
Regiment, one of the last horsed units. He served in France and Belgium
from the outbreak of hostilities until he was evacuated at Dunkirk on 4th
June 1940. From June 1940 to May 1943, he served in England as an
Instructor of Gunnery and from May 1943 was a Battery Commander in
the 97 Anti Tank Regiment in the 15th Scottish Division. With his
Regiment he disembarked on the 13th June 1944 at Le Hamel in
Normandy. He was in action in the battles south of Caen until recalled to
go to the Staff College on 22nd July 1944. in March 1945 he joined the
55th Heavy Regiment and sailed to India in June that year. The war
ended before his Regiment came into action and he was then engaged in
disbanding Indian Army units at Kamareddi near Secundarabad. From
September 1946, he served as a regimental officer and qualified
parachutist as Battery Commander and Commanding Officer in 158
parachute Field Regiment and 9 (para.) Field Regiment, Royal Indian
Artillery at Karachi and in Poona after Partition. He embarked with the
last ship-load of British troops to leave India. From February 1948 to
November 1950, he served as a Battery Commander in 82 and 69 H.A.A.
Regiments in Edinburgh. He was posted to Kenya in December 1950 and
served with 156 East African H.A.A. Battery till November 1953 during
the Mau Mau troubles. He returned to the United Kingdom in November
1953 and was trained as an Air Photographic Interpreter and served as a
Photo Interpreter at Nuneham Park, The War Office, as a G.S.O.2,
Germany (B.A.O.R.) and the Far East (Singapore). In August 1964, he was
appointed Chief Instructor at the Joint School of Photographic
Interpretation. He married on 10th June 1940, Priscilla Ann Lushington,
elder daughter of C. F. Lushington and grand-daughter of Col. Sir Arthur
V. Hammong, V.C., K.C.B. He has two son.