Sir Iain Colquhoun, 7th Baronet
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Sir Iain Colquhoun, 7th Baronet, 29th Laird of Luss,First World War.
Military career
During the First World War, Colquhoun served in the
Douglas Haig, as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, in view of Colquhoun's former distinguished conduct in the field.[4]
By 1918 he was Commanding Officer of
barbed wire. The men extended along the line even though they were completely exposed in the open. Under the inspiring leadership of Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun and Regimental Sergeant-Major 'African Joe' Withers, the battalion held off the Germans for the rest of the day, with modest casualties.[5][6]
Colquhoun was wounded during the war and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (1916) and Bar (1918) and a Mention in Dispatches. After the war he was Honorary Colonel of the 9th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Glasgow University Officer Training Corps, and President of the Dunbartonshire Territorial Association.[7]
Post-war
He was
Glasgow University from 1934 to 1937.[8] He was created a Knight of the Thistle in 1937.[8] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938 and resigned in 1942.[9]
Family
Colquhoun was the son and heir of Sir Alan John Colquhuon, 6th baronet, and his first wife, Justine Henrietta Kennedy.Fiona, a Segrave Trophy winner, married the 8th Earl of Arran[11] (1910–1983), an Irish peer; the present 9th Earl is their son.
Notes
- ^ "Sir Iain Colquhoun of Luss (1887–1948) | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ a b c Alastair Macdonald (24 December 2014). "How Christmas Truce led to court martial". Reuters.
- ISBN 9780813166162.
- ^ 'The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914-1919', edited by Robert Blake (Pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952), P.124-126.
- ^ Middlebrook, pp. 251–2.
- ^ Edmonds, pp. 228–34.
- ^ Burke's.
- ^ a b "Sir Iain Colquhoun 7th Baronet". University of Glasgow.
- ^ "Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage pg. 480
- ^ Steven, Alasdair (10 June 2013). "Obituary: Countess Arran, power-boat champion". The Scotsman. Johnston Press.
References
- Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, various editions.
- Brig-Gen Sir James E. Edmonds, History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium 1918, Vol I, The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries, London: Macmillan, 1935/Imperial War Museum and Battery Press, 1995, ISBN 0-89839-219-5.
- Martin Middlebrook, The Kaiser's Battle, 21 March 1918: The First Day of the German Spring Offensive, London: Allen Lane, 1978/Penguin, 1983, ISBN 0-14-017135-5.
External links
- "Sir Iain Colquhoun's Hand-Written Diary of Events Leading to his Court Martial". valeofleven.org.uk.