NAM.1994-11-114-5

Photograph bearing the caption, Acting Captain, Lovat Scouts. OC Support Squadron, later OC “Y” Squadron. Khalkis, Euboea. June 1946. Accompanying note depicts a Kilmarnock bonnet, with dark blue and white dicing in the photograph. The only other regiment wearing this kind of bonnet was the Scottish Horse, which had red and white dicing. The Lovat Scouts badge, not visible in the photograph, was a stag’s head in belt, with the regimental motto, Je Suis Prest, which was translated by the Jocks as ‘I am a bit wee pushed.’ The shirt worn in the photograph was a blue, sweat-absorbing mountaineers’ woollen shirt, worn by officers. The shirt was inherited from the Lovat Scouts time with the 4th Indian Division in Salonika. 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.