9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1984 - Page 0082
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1984 |
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THE ant/urn novAL LANCERS REGIMENTAI JOURNAL Obituaries Colonel Sir Douglas Scott Bt Douglas Winchester Scott was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst and succeeded his father Admiral Sir Percy Scott Bt In 1924. He was gazetted into the 3rd Hussars in 1927 and in 1940found himself as Staff Captain to 2nd Armoured Brigade, then composed of the Bays, 9L and 10H and Commanded by Dick McCreery, After Commanding the 3rd Hussars in Italy and Syria in 1944, Douglas Scott returned to UK the following year as Cliiel lnstructor at the Senior Olticers’ School, DeVizes and was promoted to full Colonel. It was In February 1948 that Douglas was apponited to Command the ‘Ninth’ who, at that tlme, had Inst returned from Palestine after 6 years abroad He could not have taken over at a more difficult time nor In a worse place, The Regiment had been reduced to a cadre strength of 200 Regular Soldiers and were quartered in abiect squalor, sharing a nissen hutted Camp in Lanarkshire With German POW's who were being repatriated. Eventually the Regiment moved to Glencorse Camp near Edinburgh, where for the next two years they were Involved in activities as far apart as provtding training assistance to 33rd Lowland Armoured Brigade by running their annual Gunnery Camps at Kircudbright to taking part in the Edinburgh Tattoo as the lXth MCHahder’s Highlanders, the 1948 London Dock Strlke working as stevedores, proVIding the Butt party at Bisley and guarding the US Army Guards who were In turn guarding the Atomic War heads at an aerodrome In Norfolk That life in the Regiment did Improve and that the strength of his Regiment gradually Increased was due entirely to the untiring ellorts made by the Commanding Officer» no respecter of persons set In authority unless they were prepared to help7 and who used all his influence and drive lor the betterment of the Regiment, their living and working conditions under peacetime conditions and accounting. Very few members of the Regiment realised just how much Douglas did for his adopted Regiment and how well they were looked after under his command, in spite of the most trying times and conditions. | Will remember him for his gruff good humour, his sound advice, his kindly help and generosity, his cigarette-holder and his servtce cap always tilted over one eye. Mle L utonant Colonel G B Clifton- Brown Geoffrey Benedict Cliftoanrown died in November 1983, aged 84 years He ruined the Twelfth in December 1918, after Eton and Sandhurst, and in 1923 he was in the Subaltems polo team, Wlth the McCreery brothers, when they Won the Subalterns Gold Cup at Ranelagh. In 1926, when the Regiment moved to Egypt, he was made Adjutant, and he held this appointment during the transition from horsed cavalry to armoured cars He served as Adiutant of the Ayrshire Yeomanry for three years from 1930 and afterwards returned to Regimental duty in September 1939, on the outbreak of War, he was Second in Command to Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Lumsden when the Twelfth lOllTed the B,E.F, in France Oii tDth May, 1940, during Herbert Lumsden's brief absence, Geoff led the Regiment rapidly forward to positions on the River Dyle. immediately after me Germans had crossed the Belgian lrnritier He continued as coiid in Command ilirotiglioiii the Battle Lit France, and the evacuation trmn Dunkirk For his part in iliese momentous operations he was awarded a Mention In Despatclies |
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