THE COVENANTER
Commemoration Service at
Douglas,
11 May 2008
Major The Reverend DEN Cameron
MICAH Ch 6, Vv 6-8
Text - With what shall I come before the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of
rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He
has showed you, O man, what is good. And
what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk
humbly with your God.
I am proud to have served with the
Cameronians!
This is the last formal gathering of
That is surely the theme in our hearts as
Cameronians and well-wishers. Of course
we gather here today. And I mean not just
friends and comrades will continue to meet
those who were commissioned or non-
one another here and elsewhere as long as
commissioned in platoon and company
they want to, and are able. Lots to share,
and battalion - but wives and children - also
to laugh over, or in this or that occasional
members of our great Regimental family.
moment of seriousness, to be silent.
They belong here, too!
But not to grieve. We’ve done our grieving.
We’ve come a long way from that moment
The sorrow of those days in 1968 should have
when Colonel Dow stood before the
faded. Life must go on. We’re not entirely
Commander-in-Chief in Scotland and said:
a gathering of youth, are we? - Though
“We have to go now, Sir. It is time for us
hopefully hearts can still stay young. And
to go.” And those on parade marched off
they say that while our short term memory
to drum beat - for the Battalion and Regular
diminishes, our long-term recollections
Regiment officially no longer existed.
sharpen. So, lots left in the memory banks
to draw upon.
We all know that is the way of life. Times
for change must always come, sometimes
We must leave it to the historians to say
unwelcome. And it has come today, 40
what sort of Regiment we were. We all have
years later.
our own opinions on that, and needn’t be
afraid to share them! Today I want to pick
out and share just two out of many good
ways we soldiered as a Regiment in the last
century. I can say share, because I myself am
not quite yet history….
In the lesson read a few moments ago we
heard these words: To act justly and to love
mercy.
I think of the 1st Battalion in Malaya, when
General Templar brilliantly ordered that
all the workers on rubber and oil estates
be moved into new, guarded, fenced-in
villages. This made it really difficult for
the terrorists to get regular supplies. The
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