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2Lt. Frederick William Milroy "Roy" Gladwyn
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Highlanders
My grandfather Roy Gladwyn enlisted on 17th of August 1916 at the age of 18 as a private and was posted to 13th Suffolk Regiment. In December he was accepted into 5th Officer Cadet School at Trinity College Cambridge. He was commissioned on 9th May 1917 and 10 days later arrived at the 3rd Black Watch's training centre at Nigg in Ross-shire.
He joined 9th Black Watch on 15th of September, then at Stirling Camp near Arras and as a platoon commander a week later went into the line south of the River Scarpe east of Arras. The battalion spent some time north of the Scarpe river, but by March 1918 were back in the line south of the Scarpe near Monchy le Preux and were in the front line when the Germans launched operation Mars early on the morning of 28 March, which he survived.
With the reorganisation of the Army in May 1918, which resulted in 9/Black Watch amalgamating with 4/5th Black Watch, my grandfather transferred to 6th Black Watch where he was briefly in the front line at Oppy, north-east of Arras.
In July the battalion was moved to the Champagne country just north of Epernay to take part in an Anglo-French counter attack to push the Germans back from the Marne salient gained by their attack in May and to alleviate the risk to Paris. He was wounded on 28th of July 1918 in the final attack (on Chambrecy) made by the 6th Black Watch in this campaign and for which the battalion was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He recovered and in June 1919 was attached to 12th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders guarding GHQ (now the modern Askeri Military museum) Army of the Black Sea in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. He was demobbed on 1st of April 1920.
