NAM.1994-11-114-1

Photograph bearing the caption, 14462537 Private - General Service Corps - Apr 1945 No. 10 Primary Training Centre, Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow. Accompanying note depicts a pudding shaped-hat, with General Service Corps bakelite badge in the photograph. Other ranks were just being allowed to buy and wear ties walking-out. From a group of 9 photographs collected by Capt Colin Ian McIntyre, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 1945-1948. Captain McIntyre later joined the Territorial Army in 1950 (c) as Staff captain with the 47th (London) Brigade H. Q. at Duke of York’s Barracks, Chelsea. He subsequently became DAA and Quarter Master General and a Major, and thus held a commission from both the King and the Queen.