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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:50 pm    Post subject: HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY COLONELS Reply with quote
1881 [2nd Bn:] Gen. Walter Douglas Phillips Patton-Bethune
1881 [1st Bn:] Gen. John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple, CB [also 108th Foot]
1901.01.29 Lt-Gen. William Kelty McLeod
1903.12.30 Gen. Sir Henry John Thoroton Hildyard, GCB [GOC South Africa 1904-08]
1916.07.26 Lt-Gen. Sir William Pitcairn Campbell, KCB [also 2nd Bn & 4th Bn KRRC; Hon. Col. QVR]
1918.03.03 Lt-Gen. Sir David Henderson, KCB, KCVO, DSO
1921.08.18 Maj-Gen. Granville George Algernon Egerton, CB
1929.05.10 Gen. Sir Henry Sinclair (Horne), 1st Baron Horne, GCB, KCMG [also Master Gunner St. James's Park; Col. Cmdt. Royal Artillery]
1929.12.02 Brig-Gen. Sir Alfred Granville Balfour, KBE, CB
1936.03.15 Maj-Gen. Sir Andrew Jameson McCulloch, KBE, CB, DSO, DCM
1946.07.14 Maj-Gen. Alexander Patrick Drummond Telfer-Smollett, CB, CBE, DSO, MC
1954.08.13 Maj-Gen. Robert Elliott Urquhart, CB, DSO [GOC Malaya 1950-52]
1957.12.24 Maj-Gen. Ronald Albert Bramwell Davis, CB, DSO [continued 1959 in R Highland Fus]
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
was that the Elphinstone of Afghanistan fame Dick?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
No Sandy,
You must be thinking of William George Keith Elphinstone and the massacre


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:25 pm    Post subject: HLI Colonels Reply with quote
Dick my sister worked for Telfor Smollets son in Bulford1953-54,she was
always promised her wages would be next week,anyway Pratick Telford
Smollet opened a Bear Park near Loch Lomand.I went to visit it and in
the house were his mention in dispatches,and asked any ex member of the HLI to speak to him, I asked and spoke to him he remembered my
father & sister,his house is now Loch Lomand golf course.My sister in Australia still maintains Telfor Smollet owa her wages.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just think of the interest John!


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