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Ceremony, Glasgow remembers J M Young 2011, image courtesy of Major R Elliot BEM

Lieutenant John M Young -

Remembered by Glasgow City Council

By HHQ

On the 30th of March 1944 a 24 year old Scotsman, Lieutenant John Young, was Officer Commanding A Company, The 1st Battalion The Assam Regiment defending a position close to the village of Kharasom in Nagaland, India:  as the crow flies about 40 miles from Kohima, roughly 75 miles by track.

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HMS Repulse


By Surgeon Lieutenant B C C Tamayo, RN


BATTLE HONOURS
1596 Cadiz
1762 Martinique
1782 Saintes
1941 Norway
1941 Bismark

When the 13th HMS REPULSE decommissions on 28th August (1996) it will bring to a close, hopefully only temporarily, 400 years of Naval history involving this name.

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Mauser Rifle and Drum c 1901 

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Object of the Month

Object of the Month

Miniature Portrait of John Currie Lauder, 1914 - 1918

Son of the world famous music hall entertainer Sir Harry Lauder.

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