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Excerpts from the autobiography of Lt Col Charles Glen Collins, 1st Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, detailing his career in Egypt, during the Boer War, as adjutant of Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, when providing an honour guard for King Edward VII at Balmoral, where he struck up a friendship with the future George V, and at the gaming tables. He commanded the Howe Bn Royal Marines, Royal Naval Division, at Gallipoli, having been given the job by his old Boer War colleague, Winston Churchill. From a collection of papers associated with Lt Col Charles Glen Collins, 1st Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, detailing his career in Egypt, during the Boer War (1899-1902) and World War One, Gallipoli (1915-1916) and his life post war.

Boer War (1899-1902), World War One, Gallipoli (1915-1916)