"Prior to joining the Commandos dad was a young soldier in the KRRC before the young soldiers battalions were disbanded and Dad went to the RTC at Catterick. This never appealed much to dad but on hearing the skirl of the pipes he transferred to the Highland Light Infantry. Col. Dawson nicknamed him the Cockney Jock due to his HLI badge on his Green Beret. On being returned to the HLI dad served in Palestine before being demobbed in the rank of Sergeant. He was subsequently called up into the Glasgow Highlanders at the out break of the Korean War, but was never sent. He then served for 17 years in the London Scottish TA Regiment and obtained his T.E.M. medal".