The Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry
6 October 1959 - 10 July 1968

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						1959-1968
Osnabruck 1959	Gibraltar 1961	Tobruk	Berlin 1963	Gravesend 1965/66	Aden 1966	SCLI Memoirs

Lt. Col.	W.R. Lawson MBE	October 1959 - April 1960
Lt.Col.	W. Hine-Haycock	April 1960 - September 1962
Lt.Col.	J.T.C. Howard MC.	September 1962 - March 1965
Lt.Col.	I.G. Mathews	March 1965 - September 1967
Lt.Col.	C. D.C. Frith	September 1967

Adjutant

Capt.	B.M. Lane	October 1959 - August 1961
Capt.	W.H.White	August 1961 - June 1963
Capt.	W.H. Stevens	June 1963 - June 1964
Capt.	J.F.A.Overton	June 1964 - November 1965
Capt.	J.R.Darbyshire	November 1965 - October 1966
Capt.	N.R.M. Petrie	October 1966 - January 1968
Capt.	A.I.H.Fyfe	January 1968

Quartermaster

Major QM	T.F.Meredith MBE	October 1959 - July 1962
Capt. QM	A.F.Frost	July 1962 - June 1966
Capt. QM	H.F.Royffe MBE	June 1966 - November 1967
Capt. QM	P.C.Firth	November 1967

Regimental Sergeant Major

WO1 RSM	W. Jan Passmore	6 October 1959 - July 1961
WO1 RSM	A.V. Worster	July 1961 - July 1964
WO1 RSM	A.A. Lynas-Gray (The Bear)	July 1964 - April 1967
WO1 RSM	R.C.B. Cox	April 1967

Bandmaster

WO1 (BM)	P.W. Parkes LRAM ARCM	October 1959 - May1962
WO1 (BM)	B. Storey LRAM	May 1962 - December 1967
WO1 (BM)	E. Slater LRAM	December 1967

This is extra information that is 1st Battalion The Light Infantry, it shows how ex SCLI officers climbed the promotion ladder.

1st Bn. LI. RSM's Click image to open in new window and Colour

1st Bn. LI. CO's Click image to open in new window and in Colour

These images have been supplied by Major Steve Taylor.

 

This page has been updated with the kind assistance of The Light Infantry Office (Somerset)