Lieut Col. Colin Derek Cokayne Frith OBE- died 30th April 2008

Lt.Col Ian Guy Mathews - died 25th May 2006 - (4th CO of 1 SCLI.) after a long period of failing health at the age of eighty two. Born in Cologne on 19th March 1924, Guy was the son of Lieut.Col. Stanley Mathews MC. (Sam) who was serving with 2 DCLI in the British Army of Occupation of the Rhine. Educated at Wellington College, it was always his ambition to follow his father into the Regiment.

He applied for a commission in 1942 but was turned down for being to young so enlisted as a private soldier in The Royal Scots, he was drafted out to India and obtained his commission with The 9th Gurkha Rifles. He saw action with Force 136 fighting the Japanese in Malaya.

He transferred to the British Army in 1947 and was commissioned in the DCLI, going on to serve in Ceylon and West Indies with DCLI. Osnabruck as OC C Coy 1 SCLI and then USA. He rejoined the regiment of SCLI as second-in-command in Berlin and took over Command on 1st March 1965, from John Howard.

Tours and exercises followed in Norway and Aden, it is to great credit of the Battalion's high standard of leadership that 1 SCLI acquitted itself with such honour.

Guy retired in 1967 to Herefordshire to run an antique business, he was twice married - first to Daphne Byass who died in 2005 and latterly to Sarah Chetwynd Stapylton. Sarah survives him as do the two daughters from each marriage.

Lt.Col. William Roland Lawson MBE - died 7th. September 2003 aged 89yrs. Educated at Repton and Cambridge commissioned in 1936 into the 2nd. Bn.Som LI in Colchester and on Public Duties in London. From 1937 - 1944 he was with the 1st. Bn. in India.
He went with the Bn. to Burma as 2ic. and was acting CO.on two occasions, one was a period of three months. He attended Staff College in 1945 and between 1946 - 1948 he was Brigade Major to Brig.Cecil Firbank in 71st. Infantry Brigade in Germany and then as GSO2 in 53rd. Infantry Div. He returned to the 1st. Bn. as a Company Commander at Borden before being posted to Singapore as MA to the Chief of Staff HQ. FARELF in 1949. This was followed by 6 months as a student at the Joint Services College, Latimer and a 2 year tour as an Instructor and Company Commander at RMA Sandhurst from 1953 - 1955. a tour as a GSO1 in Military Intelligence at the War Office followed and in 1958 he took over command of the 1st. Bn. Som LI. in Warminster and on amalgamation with the 1st. Bn. DCLI in Osnabruck he became the 1st. CO. of the SCLI.

Lt.Col. John Thurstan Collins Howard MC. - died 28th. December 1998 aged 79yrs. Born in Cornwall in 1919 and educated at Eton & Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the DCLI. two months before the outbreak of WW2.and posted to the 2nd.Bn. He was however too young to join the Bn. and did not see active service until 1941 when he joined the Bn.in North Africa. After the battle for Tunis 2 DCLI received an order to send 9 Officers and 227 Ors. to 1 KSLI who were in 1st Br.Div. and preparing for the assault on Italy. He won an immediate Military Cross on the beach at Anzio.

After fighting in Italy with 1 KSLI, where he was 'mentioned in despatches' he went to Staff College in Haifa and after a staff job and a posting to the Nigerian Regt.he re-joined 2 DCLI in Greece in 1945. In 1955 he was commanding the Depot in Bodmin and just prior to the amalgamation he was made 2ic.1st Bn Som LI. He helped to cement the good relations between the two regiments. In 1962 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 1 SCLI. in Gibraltar and later in Berlin. He left the army in 1967.
NB. It was Col Howard in company with John Barry-Tait who brought about the SCLI Reunion at its original location at the Apple Tree P H. West Pennard.

Brig.William Hine-Haycock FRPSL. DL. - Died 14th.September 1989 aged 71yrs. 2nd.CO SCLI. born at Kittery Court, Kingswear, educated at Canford and RMA Sandhurst, commissioned into DCLI. 13th.Jan.1939. posted to 2nd.Bn.at Blackdown
At the outbreak of WW2.appointed Intelligence Officer at Brigade HQ.and went to France with 4th.Div. saw action in the Saar before the retreat through Belgium and France and the evacuation of the BEF. from Dunkirk. Mentioned in Dispatches. After a few months in UK. in March 1941 sailed for Middle East with 70th.Div.saw action in Palestine, Syria and the Western Desert. Early 1942 the Div.embarked for Singapore which was then under serious threat, whilst at sea Singapore fell, so the Div.was diverted to Bombay then to Arakan and Burma, during ensuing retreat again mentioned in Dispatches. At the end of 1942 seconded to Australian Army in New Guinea. After training served with 2/48th.AIF and 24 CMF throughout 1943 on the coast of Papua.
On return to India attended Staff College at Quetta, after Parachute training appointed Brigade Major to 14 Air Landing Brigade, saw further action in Burma. Invalided home in 1945, later posted to Schlesweig Holstein as Military Secretary to Sir Evelyn Barker followed by various Staff and Regimental appointments in England, Germany, Greece and the Middle East. In 1959 promoted to Lt.Col and took command of 1 SCLI in Osnabruck and later Gibraltar. Promoted Col. in 1964, appointed Brigade Col.LI. 1967 Promoted to Brigadier and assumed last posting as Defence Attache, Madrid. Retired from the army in 1971.