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Sub Units:

1st Battalion Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) was divided into sub units as follows:

Note:

In theory C Company was a wartime only Company which was a Territorial Reinforcement Company from 2/51 Highland Volunteers (later 3 HLDRS) now a part of 51st Highland Regiment

Colours are the Company colours worn on the football park and so on! (As far as I can remember - can anyone confirm?)

 

Title

Nickname

Composition

A (Grenadier) Company

 

1 2 and 3 Platoons and a Coy HQ

B (Regimental) Company

The Bonnie Bee

5 6 and 7 Platoons and a Coy HQ

D (Light) Company

Clan MacDelta

13 14 and 15 Platoons and a Coy HQ

Support (Heavy Weapons) Company

 

Mortars, Antitank/MILAN and a Recce Pl

Headquarters Company

 

Various ones - usually rude.....!

Various admin subunits: 

Orderly Room (Battalion Headquarters)

Pay Office (later Admin Office)

Medical/Dental Centre

REME Light Aid Detachment (LAD)

Intelligence Cell

Families Office (Now Welfare Officer)

Signals Platoon

Motor Transport Platoon

PRI (Regimental Welfare and shop)

Pipes and Drums (who were also the Machine Gun Platoon) (part of S Company when Recce Platoon was not on establishment i.e. Kirknewton)

Military Band (when we had one)

Catering Platoon (Army Catering Corps later Royal Logistics Corps)

The infamous (and also much loved and needed - honest!) Quartermasters' Platoon!

I served in Delta Company and Headquarters Company during my career.