NAM.1994-11-114-6

Photograph bearing the caption, Acting Captain (W/S Lieutenant) Lovat Scouts, Piraeus, Athens. September 1946. (Parachute Officers Selection Board, Cairo). Accompanying note depicts the ‘Lovat Scouts’ flash under Argentina, and Lucky Horseshoe emblem of a very composite 13 Division, Greece. 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.