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From: "Ken Wilson-Wheeler" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] WWI DCM award - QO Cameron Highlanders
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:13:15 +0100
References: <036301c11ec6$1995f360$3300a4c0@toshiba>


Tom,
This is not a printed source and may seem rather obvious, but I presume that
you are aware of and have checked
the DCM index cards at the PRO?
Ken.
(in West Sussex, UK)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Great War" <>
To: <>
Sent: 06 August 2001 23:19
Subject: Re: [WW1] WWI DCM award - QO Cameron Highlanders


> Alas Tom I cannot help with positive data which is a great shame for you
> help so many others that it is unfortunate that your own query goes
> unanswered. I have a 'complete' copy of 'all' the QOCH DCM citations but
> there is not one for Charles Neaves Robertson. I notice that both your
> suspect battalions were 15 Division. That unit had a very good history,
"The
> Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914-1919" (alas I do not have a copy)
written
> by Lt/Col J Stewart & John Buchan; published by William Blackwood & Sons
in
> 1926. It has detailed appendices including honours & awards. Good hunting.
>
> Geoff Bridger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 03 July 2001 18:06
> Subject: [WW1] WWI DCM award - QO Cameron Highlanders
>
>
> > Does anyone have any printed references for DCM awards to the QOCH's
(79th
> Foot) during WWI, other than RW Walker's lists ? - I'm looking for one
that
> may have "slipped through the net" and not made it to the London Gazette -
> either that or the man's demobilisation certificate has been tampered with
> (!?)
> >
> > ROBERTSON, Charles Neaves, Pte S/32186, either 6th or 7th Battalion and
> the award is reputedly a 1918 one - his service medal records check-out
ok.
> >
> > thanks
> > --
> > Tom Tulloch-Marshall
> > Great War Military Research
> >
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