Royal Scots Fusiliers - Famous Officers

Famous Officers

• Sir Andrew Agnew (in command at the Battle of Dettingen)
• Field Marshal Sir Paul Haynes (in command at Inkerman).
• Lord Trenchard (founder of the Royal Air Force and later made Marshal of the Royal Air Force) served as a subaltern during the Second Boer War.
• Deneys Reitz, one time deputy Prime Minister of South Africa and South African High Commissioner in London. Reitz served as a Commando against the British during the Second Boer War but served on the British side against the Germans in Africa, later commanding the 1st Battalion of The Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front in France.
• Sir Winston Churchill commanded the 6th Battalion (Territorial Army) of the Regiment for a few months in 1916 on the Western Front while in disgrace after Gallipoli.
  • Churchill's second-in-command was Sir Archibald Sinclair, later made Secretary of State for Air in 1940 as part of Churchill's coalition government.
  • One of Churchill's subalterns was Sir Edmund Hakewell Smith, During World War II, he would later be promoted to Major-General and become commander of 52 (Lowland) Division in 1943.
• Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan commanded the 6th (Pioneer) Battalion during the Battle of France.