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2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders (Queens Own)
The 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders was in Poona, India when war broke out in August 1914. They returned to England, landing Devonport on 16 November 1914, then moved to Winchester and joined 81st Brigade, 27th Division. They proceeded to France on the 20th of December 1914 landing at Le Havre. They were in action at St Eloi and The Second Battle of Ypres, but were ordered to Salonika, arriving on the 5th of December 1915. In 1916 they were involved in the capture of Karajakois, the capture of Yenikoi and the battle of Tumbitza Farm. They were in action in the capture of Homondos in 1917 and in 1918, the final offensive in Salonika, including the capture of the Roche Noir Salient, the passage of the Vardar river and the pursuit to the Strumica valley. After the Armistice with Bulgaria on the 30th of September, 27th Division continued to advance, but was ordered to halt on the on 2nd of November, soon after it had passed Krupnik. In December they embarked for operations on the Black Sea and reached Constantinople on the 19th and Tiflis in January 1919. The 27th Division was disbanded on the 24th of September 1919 at Batum.
22nd Apr 1915 2nd Camerons at Hill 60 2nd Queens Own Cameron Highlanders are in the trenches at Hill 60
1st of May 1915 Gas Casualties 
4th May 1915 The "Second Battle of Ypres". 1st Battalion fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke, Belgium 1915. 1st Battalion at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke, Belgium
At 8 pm the trenches were relieved by the 2nd Camerons and the Battalion withdrew from the small salient near Sanctuary Wood (by devious and unhealthy routes) to bivouac in the neighbourhood of Vlammertinghe, avoiding Ypres by a narrow margin.
5th October 1915 Draft arrived
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
16th Dec 1916 Comforts Fund
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Those known to have served with2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders (Queens Own) during the Great War 1914-1918. - Adamson Thomas. Cpl. (d.11th May 1915)
- Arthur DCM. J.. Sgt.
- Blades David. Pte. (d.13th July 1915)
- Bothwell Gavin Robert. L/Cpl. (d.14th May 1915)
- Brown John. L/Sgt. (d.26th September 1914)
- Chapman Horace J. Pte. (d.10th May 1915)
- Chapman Horrace John. (d.5th May 1915)
- Doig William. Pte.
- Donaldson Alexander Allan. L/Cpl. (d.11th May 1915)
- McCann MiD. Reginald Francis. L/Sgt.
- McGhie John. Pte. (d.3rd Oct 1916)
- Murdoch George Meikle. Pte. (d.20th Nov 1916)
- Owens Martin. Pte. (d.20th Feb 1915)
- Savage Frederick Thomas. Pte.
- Smith MSM. Robert. Sgt.
- Syme John. Pte. (d.24th April 1915)
- Thomson William Stewart.
- Walker David. Pte. (d.10th October 1918)
- Woods Andrew.
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Sgt. Robert Smith MSM. 2nd Btn. Cameron Highlanders Sergeant Robert Smith served with the 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders in WW1.
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Pte. Martin Owens 2nd Btn. Queens Own Cameron Highlanders (d.20th Feb 1915) Martin Owens is listed in the 1911 census on 2nd April.
He was in barracks in Farnborough, Hampshire.
So he was already in the army when war broke out.
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Pte. George Meikle Murdoch 2nd Battalion Cameron Highlanders (d.20th Nov 1916) George Meikle died in Salonika and is buried in the Salonika Anglo/French Military cemetery.
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L/Cpl. Gavin Robert Bothwell 2nd Btn. D Coy. Cameron Highlanders (d.14th May 1915) Gavin Bothwell is my Grandfather. He was in the Regular Army. He went from Poona in India, where he was stationed, then straight to the Western Front. (He never came home). He died at Hooge, Flanders. He never knew he had a son at home. My Father.
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Sgt. J. Arthur DCM. 2nd Btn. Cameron Highlanders Sjt. J. Arthur earned a DCM award on 28th of April 1915 at Hill 60 near Ypres for conspicuous gallantry when after his trench was blown in, and both officer's and several men had been buried, he re-organised the defense with great coolness and helped to dig out the buried under heavy fire conditions.
Here in Pennsylvania, USA, I acquired his grouping, and another soldier from the Boer War, one day at a car boot, a friend grabbed for me to add to trade deal or classic truck. What luck the folk here didn't realise how important and special these grouping's are.
There are five medals, all properly engraved and not touched since he himself held these relics of his valor. I also hold Leut. H. Biggs QSA grouping (5 award). Both were within a display case, and in proper lighting, toned like rainbow glory of untampered majestic glory. I have all records but search in hope of a image of either as both survived their services and drew pension.
Having family and dear friends from Birmingham and Telford, I was able to have help in finding the information. (Total thanks and regards to the Thacker family, finest friends a man could have). I also honor these and merely holding has been such a pleasure.
I hope to donate them to Inverness as a gift to them for my enjoyment of research the past decade has caused. If any other interested parties runs on a veteran clipping, image including Sjt Arthur or Leut.H. Biggs, I'd be forever in your debt.
I'm not a wealthy man, but would pay a reward for certain proven images. My vow is that these won't hit the market again and will be returned where they belong. The gift of donating would surpass any monetary gain I could enjoy. I fret the wrong holder touching, handling or tampering.
The Sjt Arthur's DCM had no ribbon, I replaced it. I have medal bar mounts backed with felt, but am to afraid to touch them to mount. I just wanted no chance they'd ever be separated. If I told what I paid for these in the trade, so many envious people would grint their teeth. The right person found these.
These are the highlight of my collection, even being an American, having kin from England.
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Cpl. Thomas Adamson 2nd Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (d.11th May 1915) Thomas Adamson was born in Cardross in December 1891, one of eleven children to Robert and Marion Adamson. Thomas worked as a bank clerk for the Bank of Scotland. Thomas was killed on 11th of May 1915 aged 23. He served in the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
Thomas, along with his brother Gunner Archibald Adamson of the Royal Field Artillery who was killed in 1917, is commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ypres. They were my great-uncles on my paternal grandmother's side.
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William Stewart Thomson 2nd Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders My great grandfather, William Thomson was born in Paisley, Scotland on 22nd of November 1870. The information I have is from his attestation papers. A newspaper clipping (no date or publication information) indicates "Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Glasgow University and served throughout the South African campaign with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Mr. Winston Churchill's regiment). Immediately on the outbreak of the present war he enlisted in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and was one of the small band of twenty-five whom the late Colonel Farquhar dispatched on the 28th February 1915, to route the 23rd Bavarians out of their trench at St. Eloi. The attack was entirely successful. Mr.Thomson was hit by a machine-gun bullet, but returned to the front in time for the operations in front of Ypres when the regiment was practically annihilated."
He survived the war and had a career as a chartered accountant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Pte. John "Jock" Syme 2nd Btn., No. 2 Coy. Cameron Highlanders (d.24th April 1915) John Syme grew up in a rural area of Midlothian, Scotland, son of a grieve who worked on the farms near Dalkeith and Penicuik. Jock's mother died when he was young. He followed his father into agricultural work then joined the Cameron Highlanders, 2nd Battalion. He served in Puna, India, sending insistent requests to his family for regular supplies of "baccy and bisquits".
When the Great War broke out, the Battalion were sent to Ypres, where Jock fought in the battle of Hill 60 in April 1915. He was killed there on 23rd or 24th April 1915 and is buried nearby at the Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Ypres.
Jock was survived by his father, stepmother, sister and half-siblings, who were by then working on the Binns Estate, West Lothian, Scotland and living at Merrilees Cottage, near Linlithgow.
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L/Sgt. Reginald Francis McCann MiD. 2nd Battalion Cameron Highlanders  Reginald McCann enlisted in 1908 and served with the 2nd Battalion Cameron Highlanders in India and China 1909-1914 and was in India when World War One broke out, stationed at Poona, India.
The Battalion, embarked for England from Bombay on the 16th of October 1914 arriving at Devonport, Plymouth and then moved to Winchester joining the 81st Brigade of the 27th Division.
On the 20th of December 1914 they landed at Havre and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including The action of St Eloi during The Second Battle of Ypres.
On the 29th of November 1915 they embarked for Salonika from Marseilles and engaged in various actions against the Bulgarian Army including The capture of Karajakois, The capture of Yenikoi, The Battle of Tumbitza Farm, The capture of Homondos, The capture of the Roche Noir Salient, The passage of the Vardar river and The pursuit to the Strumica valley.
They ended the war at Izlis N.W. of Doiran, Macedonia.
In 1919 Regimald enrolled in Nottingham into a unit formed to clean up the Western Front and moved to Australia in 1921.
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L/Sgt. John Brown 2nd Btn. Cameron Highlanders (d.26th September 1914) Lance Serjeant Brown was 27 when he died and is buried in the Igatpuri Cemetery in India, Grave 87.
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Pte. William Doig 2nd Btn., A Coy. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders William Doig served with 2nd Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
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Pte. Frederick Thomas Savage 2nd Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Frederick Savage served in Malta until the outbreak of WWI. He was brought home and sent to the front with the British Expeditionary Force. He was gassed near Bethune and spent the remainder of the war in hospital.
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Pte. Horace J Chapman 2nd Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (d.10th May 1915) Horace J Chapman was my maternal grandmother's nephew, who is remembered on the Menin Gate memorial to the Missing in Ypres. I was looking, if possible, for more information about him, and any possible photos. I have a newspaper photo from our local paper The Ross-Shire Journal, which isn't very good. I would dearly love to know more about Horace.
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L/Cpl. Alexander Allan Donaldson 2nd Battalion Queens Own Cameron Highalnders (d.11th May 1915) Lance Corporal Alexander Donaldson was killed on the 11th May 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres. He was involved in fighting near the small village of Hooge, his body was never recovered, he left behind a daughter who was less than one year old. He had previously worked in the Singer sewing machine factory in Clydebank.
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Horrace John Chapman Cameron Highlanders (d.5th May 1915) Pte Horrace John Chapman, 2nd Battalion Cameron Highlanders was killed in action at Hill 60
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Andrew "Woodsy" Woods 2nd Battalion Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Andrew Woods was my grandad. Not much info on him, since he died shortly after emigrating to Philadelphia. My mother told me he had been in Poona and that he was wounded early in the Great War.
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