NAM.1994-11-114-7

Photograph bearing the caption, 6th Airborne Division, Palestine. October 1946. After short spell as Lieutenant, Liaison Officer takes over as G III (Operations). Gaza and then Haifa. Accompanying note depicts the Black Watch badge in Airborne beret, as Red Hackle could not be worn successfully in a red beret in the photograph. The pistol in pocket (side-arms had to be carried in Palestine) was a German Officer’s Walther P. 38 (‘found’ in 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.