#cameron highlanders

[motelpearl]

Nov. 1940

"Colonel [name redacted] is using the glass. Note the little moustache. Pretty nifty eh?"

[thedeadofflandersfields]

enlistment poster for The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada

[thisdayinwwi]

Apr 17 1918 War photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes a picture, IWM Q 10941, of a soldier of the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders (1st Division) in action amidst the ruins of Cuinchy

April 17 1918

Production date: 1918-04-17 

[bantarleton]

Above is a battalion of the Cameron Highlanders paraded in front of Edinburgh Castle in 1914, prior to being despatched to the front line; below is the same battalion upon their return in 1918 after the armistice.

[rupertbbare]

A comparison of the Cameron Highlanders in 1914 and 1919

[poor-bloody-infantry]

Captain and platoon leaders of the 6th Cameron Highlanders 1918.

[highlandersmuseumww1]

‘...mortally wounded while leading the assault’

Capt Lennox Robert Murray Napier served 2nd Camerons 1911-15

He served with the 2nd Battalion in India and on the outbreak of World War 1 he remained there in charge of married families, until rejoining the Battalion, then near Dickebusch, 17th Feb 1915. After being wounded at the battle of Frezenberg Ridge, 8th May 1915, he was posted to the 1st Battalion and commanded ‘C’ Company during the trench fighting in the Bethune sector, and at the battle of Bazentin Ridge when he was mortally wounded while leading the assault, and fell into the hands of the Germans.  

Died as a Prisoner of War on the 28th July 1916 in a German Field Hospital, of wounds received in action 23rd July 1916. Originally reported missing. 

(ACC 79-19)

[cuirassier]

Cameron Highlanders of the 79th New York Regiment of Volunteers, 1860-1, Gordon Davis