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7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders    The 7th Battalion of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders went to France in early 1940 with the British Expeditionary Force, along with the 8th Battalion, forming part of the 51st Highland Division. Both battalions suffered grievous casualties in the retreat to Dunkirk with many men lost or taken as prisoners of war. The remainder of the battalion eventually escaped through Le Havre. The 7th and 8th were re-formed from men of the 10th and 11th Battalions who were still in Scotland. The 7th Battalion remained in the 51st Highland Division for the rest of the war seeing action in North Africa and Sicily before returning to take part in the Normandy Landings, across Western Europe to the Baltic.   18th Mar 1940 Instructors 16th Apr 1940 On the Move 1st May 1940 Reliefs 15th May 1940 Orders 20th May 1940 Withdrawal 22nd May 1940 Threat 23rd May 1940 In Reserve 24th May 1940 Orders 25th May 1940 On the Move 26th May 1940 Moves 27th May 1940 On the Move 28th May 1940 On the Move 6th Jun 1940 Reorganisation 9th Jun 1940 In Defence 9th Jun 1940 In Defence 11th Jun 1940 Orders 22nd May 1942 Competition 23rd May 1942 Competition 2nd Jun 1942 Exercise 19th of September 1942 Move 20th of September 1942 Exercises 9th of October 1942 1 Black Watch Op Order No 1. Exercise "Rothes"   10th of October 1942 Amendments and Additions to O.O. No. 1 Exercise "Rothes" 21st of October 1942 Operation Order No.1   22nd of October 1942 Action 23rd Oct 1942 In Action 23rd Oct 1942 Led by the Pipers 23rd of October 1942 Action 23rd of October 1942 In battle 24th Oct 1942 In Action 25th Oct 1942 In Action 26th Oct 1942 In Action 28th Oct 1942 Barrage   4th Nov 1942 In Action 4th Nov 1942 Out of Action 5th of November 1942 Report   22nd of November 1942 Operational Order No. 11. Appendix B   22nd of November 1942 Instructions   25th of November 1942 Orders 1st of December 1942 Operation Order No. 12.   6th of December 1942 Op Order No. 13 Appendix B   6th of December 1942 Draft 152 Bde. Operation Instruction No. 1.   7th of December 1942 Ref Draft Operation Instruction No. 1 of 6 Dec 42   15th of December 1942 Orders   24th of December 1942 Movement Order No 1.   16th Jan 1943 Advance 25th Jan 1943 Guard Duty 5th Feb 1943 Inspection 24th Feb 1943 Advance 6th Mar 1943 In Action   16th Mar 1943 In Action   22nd Mar 1943 Shelling 6th Apr 1943 Attack Made 6th Apr 1943 In Action   19th Apr 1943 In Action   5th May 1943 In Action   9th Jul 1943 In Action 29th Jul 1943 In Action   9th Jan 1944 Visit 17th Jan 1944 Exercise 18th Jan 1944 Exercise 19th Jan 1944 Exercise 29th Jan 1944 Moves 30th Jan 1944 Exercise 4th Feb 1944 Exercise 28th Mar 1944 Exercise 10th April 1944 Exercise    10th April 1944 Exercise 16th of April 1944 Report of Move 21st April 1944 Exercise   22nd April 1944 Exercise   22nd April 1944 Exercise   22nd April 1944 Orders   23rd April 1944 Exercise    23rd April 1944 Exercise Notes   24th April 1944 154th Brigade Instructions   6th of May 1944 Transfers 18th July 1944 In Action 24th Jul 1944 Reliefs 25th Jul 1944 Reliefs Complete 7th Aug 1944 In Action 12th August 1944 Docks Shelled 13th August 1944 Reorganisation 16th Oct 1944 Enemy Positions Targetted   23rd Oct 1944 Attack Made   12th Jan 1945 In Action 23rd March 1945 Crossing the Rhine   16th of April 1945 Changing plans   3rd May 1945 Orders If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the Second World War 1939-1945. Aitken John. Pte. Alcock Kenneth Baldwin. Pte. (d.5th November 1944) Balmforth Harry. Pte. (d.15th Aug 1944) Conway John. L/Cpl. Cowan Archibald White. Cpl. (d.9th July 1944) Dalrymple Robert. Pte. Drummond Angus. 2Lt. (d.21st July 1943) Duffy William James. Pte. Forsyth A.. L/Cpl. Gillespie Thomas. Pte. (d.24th Mar 1945) Hall Andrew. Cpl. Harper Henry. Jennings Albert. Gnr. Kerr Matthew. Pte. Kerr Matthew. Pte. McFarlane Robert Breton. Pte. McKie John. Pte McNulty James Patrick. Pte Morris Robert. Pte. Naylor Frank. Pte. Nicholson William. Pte (d.23rd March 1945) Partington Charles Clifford. Porter William. Pte. (d.30th October 1944) Rae Samuel. Pte. (d.25th June 1944) Spicer Samuel Maurice . Pte. (d.12th January 1945) Sykes MM. Daniel. L/Cpl. Tuckey Archibald Robert. L/Cpl. (d.20th November 1944) The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 years. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders? There are:1409 items tagged 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Pte. Samuel Rae 7th Battalion Argyll & Southerland Highlanders (d.25th June 1944) Samuel Rae was my uncle who was killed in action at the age of 30 years in 1944, and buried at Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados, France. He served with the 7th Battalion Argyll and Southerland Highlanders. His two brother`s one of them being my dad both survived the war. Samuel was one of 14 children to Samuel & Jessie Rae of Glasgow. Christine Rae Add to this record. Pte. Robert Morris 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders These photos belong to Bobby Morris of 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders who was captured in France near Dunkirk. He was held in Stalag XXd and Stalag VIIIb. Bobby is still living, he is in his 90s. I don't know any of the other people in the photographs but would be interested to know who they were. Jim Jamieson Add to this record. Pte. Robert Dalrymple 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Robert Dalrymple was captured near Dunkirk in 1940, along with Bobby Morris and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Stalag XXID and Stalag IXc, his POW number was 648. Jim Jamieson Add to this record. Pte James Patrick McNulty 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders James McNulty, 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was a P.o.W at Marienbrg, Stalag XXB Prisoner of number 13511. I have his Army discharge book which states P.o.W 18th of June 1940 to 18th of May 1945 and of his records. He was reported Missing on 15th of July 1940 on Casualty list 255. Then PoW (previously reported missing) on 20th of August 1940 duty location France. 22nd of June 1945 reported to the war office casualty branch, casualty list 1789, states previously reported on Casualty List No. 286 as Prisoner of War in German hands (Germany) now Not Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, France. He told stories of eating watery potato soup and being so hungry that they either ate or contemplated eating rats. He did say he managed to escape 3 times, each time being caught. Both of which read like many stories I have read of others at Stalag XXB. He was older when he had my mum and she doesn't recall him talking too much about the war, so we do not know what he did while he was there. He was Glasgwegian and went by the name of Jimmy. He had a Popeye and Olive tattoo done whilst he was there The Germans caved in his wedding finger with the butt of a gun in order to remove a gold band and they removed his gold tooth. The picture is one of the only pictures we have of him in his uniform. Add to this record. Pte. John Aitken 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders John Aitken was a POW in Stalag 9C, Muhlhausen, from June 1940 to the end of the war. Richard Finney Add to this record. Cpl. Archibald White Cowan 7th Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (d.9th July 1944) Archibald Cowan was a territorial soldier called up for duty. He served with the 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in WW2 and fought in the Battle of France in 1944. Archibald died 9th of July 1944 aged 33 years and is buried in the Stirling (Ballengeich) Cemetery in Scotland. Son of Archibald and Agnes White Cowan, of Stirling; husband of Margaret Cowan, of Stirling. Melanie McShane Add to this record. L/Cpl. Daniel Sykes MM. 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders My mother's second cousin, Danny Sykes lost an arm in fighting with his battalion and was awarded the Military Medal. He never married and died in Liverpool in the 1970s, he was living with his brother Jack and cousin Isobel. Ian Campbell Add to this record. 2Lt. Angus Drummond 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (d.21st July 1943) Angus Drummond is listed in the Lincoln Memory Book of WW2 casualties. David Would Add to this record. Pte. Matthew Kerr 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Matt Kerr enlisted in May 1939 and was assigned to the 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was one of those left after Dunkirk and had to make his way to Le Havre. He was wounded at some stage but then transferred as a gunner in the Navy possibly on a minesweeper escorting convoys out of Oban. We have his service history but it is silent on the details of his maritme experience so further research is needed to try to find this out. We know he was torpedoed at least twice but still survived the war. We would dearly like to find out more. Frank Cullen Add to this record. Pte. Kenneth Baldwin Alcock Royal Army Medical Corps (d.5th November 1944) Private Kenneth Alcock was 21 when he was killed on 5th of November 1944 during the liberation of Empel, he was serving with the RAMC, attached to the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders He is buried in the Empel-en-Meerwijk (Oud Empel) Roman Catholic Churchyard, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. S Flynn Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices. Links

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