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Sandy · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:02 pm Post subject: 2nd World War RSF Officers

Iain Miskimmin is looking for photographs of the following Officers for a project he is undertaking...

Thanks Sandy.
I’m looking for photographs of:
2Lt. McIntosh - OC 14 Platoon 2nd Bn RSF wounded May 27th 1940
2Lt. RV Cholmondely – OC Fighting Patrol (HQ Coy) 2nd Bn RSF killed May 27th 1940
2Lt. Wakelin – 2i/c Carrier Platoon
2Lt. McDavid - OC 11 Platoon 2nd Bn RSF
2Lt. Thomson - OC 14 Platoon 2nd Bn RSF
Lt. JAF Wallace 14780 – 2i/c A Coy 2nd Bn RSF captured May 28th 1940
Lt. MHT Mellish 56865 – 2i/c B Coy 2nd Bn RSF captured May 28th 1940
Lt. PJP Green – 2i/c C Coy 2nd Bn RSF captured May 28th 1940
Lt. F Whitehead – 17 Brigade Anti Tank Coy
Capt. HWV Butterfield – 5th Division liaison officer
Capt. AM Holm 86996 – OC HQ Coy 2nd Bn RSF captured May 28th 1940

This is the work to date...

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Miskimmin · Fusilier Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

Thanks Sandy and Ken for finding the photo's of 2Lt. Wakelin and Capt. Holm. I owe you guys a beer Very Happy

Sandy · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:51 pm Post subject:

Research is the best part of the job Iain, not a problem pal
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joemacdonald · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:44 am Post subject: Re: Thanks Sandy!

Miskimmin · Fusilier Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

Good Morning Joe,
My hearty apologies for not getting back to you sooner. For some reason the forum didn't notify me of your post!

I will have a good look for the photo.

The research is going rather well and I am in the middle of translating a manuscript written by the owner of the chateau in Palingbeek a few days after the action, with many first hand accounts from the Germans who stayed in the area for a few weeks afterwards.

all the best

Iain

Miskimmin · Fusilier Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

I have another lead!!!!

The 2Lt. McIntosh I am looking for might be a Canadian who also served with the 10th for a while.

He won the MC later on in the war.

Any info on him would be highly prized!!

dickdavidson · Lieutenant Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 4617

Iain,
I came across this, is this the Officer in Question?

Description
Name McIntosh, John Allison
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: CDN/468
Regiment: 11 Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
Theatre of Combat or Operation: North West Europe 1944-45
Award: Military Cross
Date of Announcement in London Gazette: 01 March 1945
Date 1945
Catalogue reference WO 373/52links to the Catalogue
Dept Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
Series War Office and Ministry of Defence: Military Secretary's Department: Recommendations for Honours and Awards for Gallant and Distinguished Service (Army)

Here is the link
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7703622&queryType=1&resultcount=1
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Dick

Miskimmin · Fusilier Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

I hope so,
However I'm told that the Canadian "loan" officers didn't start till 1942, but there are always exceptions to every rule Smile

I would love to know if he was signed up to the RSF in 1940. He doesn't appear in the 1939 records or McNeil-Cooks diary.

But he does appear in Livingstone-Bussell's diary and is listed as having commanded 16 Platoon in D Coy.

I'm hoping that perhaps John McIntosh is still alive and is happy to talk to me.

I have been in contact with both Major Livingstone and Major Wilmot and they were both gold mines of information!