T H E C O V E N A N T E R
Richard Fowler Dorset,
7 Muirside Place, SP8 5DB
Pennyburn,
Kilwinning Sir,
Ayrshire I thought this picture would bring back
KA13 6HH memories to some ex-members of the 9th
Btn. We were stationed in Keighley for 10
P.S. months during 1943/44. this building was
Re my letter concerning Captain Kennedy’s Battalion H.Q. the C.O.’s office, orderly
unpublished memoir of Neuve Chapelle: room and signal office were on the same
it is in the Imperial War Museum. If the floor, the pipe band were billitted on the
top floor and the basement was the dining
room for H.Q. and A Coy. A Coy were in
a building about 50 yards up the street on
the left opposite the public baths where we
went every week. The baths were closed a
few years ago and turned into flats when
a new pool was opened. The other rifle
companies were stationed in a 3 storey mill
which was burned down several years ago.
B.H.Q. was the local dance hall which was
also burned down years ago and a new one
built in Victoria Park.
Regimental Trustees would arrange to have Hoping this will be of some interest to
it published, I would certainly want to our members
purchase a copy. I don’t know how easy it
would be to obtain it for serialisation in The yours etc,
Covenanter: but I have a feeling that many
would find it of interest. Sgt. Eddie Wallace J Borthwick
told me that in the 1960’s Capt. Kennedy
addressed the 1st Bn. in Redford Barracks, Sir,
Edinburgh. He said that Capt. Kennedy I enclose a copy of an article that appeared
held the men rapt for some three hours and in the Spring/Summer 2003 edition of
that everyone who heard him that day was ‘Everyone’s War’, The Journal of the Second
very moved by his words. World War Experience Centre, Leeds, which
you might think worth replicating in the
yours etc, 2003 edition of The Covenanter? I have
obtained the consent to its publication of
Richard Fowler Dr. Peter Liddle, the Editor (whom I have
known for many years).
Sir, Hugh McKay thinks that it might be
As I think you know, I’ve been having worthwhile collating some of Fyffe Christies’
Regimental Golf Umbrellas made for most works on loan from the Imperial War
regiments for some 16 years, so production Museum and the Scottish National War
is not a problem - but there is a minimum Museum, as well as those at Leeds, to form a
quantity of 10. I therfore called the Museum temporary exhibition at Hamilton at some
this morning, who have very kindly said they future time. Peter Liddle has already offered
will take the other 8, whereupon I promised
I would write to you to tell you that they
will be holding them. They are, of course,
4 panels Black, and 2 opposing panels each
Navy Blue and Jaguar Green, with Black
turned wood handle - exceptionally smart!!
yours etc,
Regimental Replicas
Clearwater,
Bourton,

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