15th Highland Light Infantry

[Mark Hone]

Do any forumites happen to have a copy of the battalion history? One of our boys, Lt Frank Cain was killed at Ayette on 13th April 1918 and is buried at Gezaincourt. A few years ago the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum kindly sent me a photocopy of the relevant section of the book -unfortunately they sent me the wrong chapter! I've been too embarrassed since to ask them for the correct one.

[Adam Harland]

Mark, yes I have a copy of this history. I will e mail you and I am sure we can sort out which bit you would like copied

Regards

Adam

[mcderms]

Unfortunately the 15 battn War Diary has not survived - I've spent a long time in the PRO trying to find it! There's a good official history - "The History Of The 15th Battn, Highland Light Infantry" editied by John M'Callum and published in 1924 by the 15th Battn HLI Association.

If anyone has a copy of the above, please let me know as I'm looking for one.

[Chris_Baker]

mcderms, are you saying that the diary is not in WO95/2393 and WO95/1776, as it shows on PROCAT?

[Staffsyeoman]

My former landlady's father, then Lt Fletcher, was awarded an immediate MC with the 15th HLI during the March retreat; he stayed in - was with David Niven in Malta - and had his own 'force' (a mobile column) in East Africa in 1940 when he was a Brigadier; there was a family legend that he fell out spectacularly with the GOC East Africa.. but his immediate DSO citation speaks otherwise! Ended the war as a Major General on the staff of the British Mission in Washington. Medals are in the HLI museum.