Scottish Horse - Honorary Colonels and Commanding Officers

Honorary Colonels and Commanding Officers

List of
Colonel Commandant /
Honorary Colonels 		List of
Commanding Officers
South Africa
(1900–02)		 The Duke of Atholl KT PC GCVO CB DSO
Imperial Yeomanry
(1902–1914)
The Great War
(1914–1919)
Scouts and Yeomanry
(1920–39)		 Lt Col RA Bartram MC
79th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery
(1939–45)		 The Duke of Atholl KT PC GCVO CB DSO
The Duchess of Atholl DBE DCL LL.D FRCM		 Lt Col RA Bartram MC
80th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery
(1939–45)		 Lt Col RMT Campbell-Preston
Armoured Reconnaissance
(1947–56)		 The Duchess of Atholl DBE DCL LL.D FRCM
Col RA Bartram MC		 Lt Col TG Cooper 4/7 DG
Lt Col Lindsay DSO
Lt Col RMT Campbell-Preston
Lt Col M Lyle

Other Notable Commanders and Soldiers

  • Lieut-Colonel William Anstruther-Gray FSA JP DL (6 September 1859 – 17 April 1938)
  • Sir Frederick Charles Thomson, 1st Baronet, KC (27 May 1875 – 21 April 1935)
  • John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven Bt, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL (27 April 1874 – 20 August 1941) British Conservative politician, and the eighth Governor-General of Australia
  • Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler (20 July 1889 – 1 March 1975) was a British politician and academic
  • Jock Wilson – (7 September 1903 – 29 September 2008) was a British serviceman, who was Great Britain's oldest D-Day veteran
  • Noel Skelton (1 July 1880 – 22 November 1935) was a Scottish Unionist politician
  • Willie Thornton- (3 March 1920 – 26 August 1991) was a Scottish footballer and manager.
  • William Wolfe – (22 February 1924 – 18 March 2010) was leader of the Scottish National Party from 1969 to 1979

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