CAPTAIN DICK DONALD PORTEOUS NE OBLIVISCARIS

http://porteous.org.uk/casualties.html


The Argyll monument at YPRES has an inscription La a’bhlair, ‘s math na cairdean ON THE DAY OF BATTLE ‘TIS GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS.AYE, ‘S truth



Captain Dick Donald Porteous ASH Killed May 10, 1915 (Ypres Salient)



He was my Auld Pop’s company commander from December 1914 until his death. I believe it was he who broke Johnny Robertson to the ranks but It may have been an English higher up...just one of the legends we grew up with...







http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/canada-worldwar1-11.shtml



IT WAS 1915 in the YPRES SALIENT…..

On the evening of the 25th the 3rd Brigade was relieved by British troops, but the 3rd Battalion was ordered to remain until other troops came up. This it did until dusk of the 26th, when it was relieved by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

Ordinarily the name of the unit that relieves your own is one of the details of campaigning that dims in the memory with the lapse of days. But the survivors of the 3rd remember the advent of the Argyll and Sutherlands as the most beautiful of actual war-pictures. For without preparation they attacked towards St. Julien Wood and staged the attack with superb and punctilious regularity. The expression " as if on parade," sometimes applied to well performed manoeuvres, is no more adequate to convey the picture than would the word " pretty " be good enough for Juno the Queen of Heaven. It was marvellous to see these splendid Highlanders spring forward and simultaneously drop, fire, spring up again, and go forward to the whistle of an officer wearing a monocle. Up and up they went, with casualties falling here and there under the fire of the German machine guns, until they had covered half the distance to the wood. Thence, the attack having failed, they retired, leaving more casualties, but not abating one whit of the snap and regularity of their movements. The 3rd stood in their trenches and ad-mired. Yes, because the deed was admirable and even in a cynical world not without a sort of usefulness. For the Germans looking on must have felt the shabbiness of their own new warfare and wondered at the force that could make men die so splendidly.



The Argyll monument has an inscription La a’bhlair, ‘s math na cairdean ON THE DAY OF BATTLE ‘TIS GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS.

MUNRO ( The new kind of warfare was POISON GAS; the officer with the monocle would have been Captain Porteus later KIA…ne obliviscaris; he was a well beloved leader and the Argylls would have

followed him into hell as they indeed did)





NOVEMBER 11 2008





ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS Ne obliviscaris




EPECIALLY the ANTS (Company A –the volunteers of August 1914 3rd Battalion ASH –drafted into the 1st Battalion Dec 12 , 1914 and thence to that grim gap of death called the YPRES SALIENT

Corporal John Robertson (American Johnny), MM killed in the Clydeside Blitz 1941 his inseparable friend in Scotland and America:; he had worked with THOMAS EDISON before the war. My father knew him well. He returned to Scotland in 1938. I own some of his books and personal effects he gave to my father. In March 1915 he and a band of Dins saved my grandfather and a few other ANTS from death or capture. My grandfather was listed as missing in action when my father was born; but by the time he was baptized March 17, 1915 the telegram had come that he was alive. That must have been a happy day for Mary Munro and Father Collins. My father, naturally, had no memory of the day!



Thomas Munro, Sr. MM “Shalako Tommy : Changa Dost –the Good Comrade) father of Mbuti Teniente Thomas Munro jr The Good Lieutenant USAR WWI 1942-146. and Sergeant Jos Munro USAC 1942-1945, graduate of Glasgow University 1942.

Danny McQueen , Sr. KIA his son was killed at Guadalcanal along with DOUGLAS MUNRO who were serving in the American forces.

Tommy Craig, Sr. KIA

Jimmy Quiqley KIA

Andrew Muir KIA

Captain Porteous KIA

Major MacKenzie KIA

Sergeant O’Neill KIA

The Argylls suffered 400% casualties; over 7131 killed and over 25,000 casualties.



Their comrades of the Highland Light Infantry (Captain Colin Campbell Mitchell MC battlefield commission from the ranks

And the Black Watch

And all the rest whose names are lost in the mists of time.








http://macinnes.org/war_info/macaonghais.html





McINNES, T
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
19th May 1915
19th
May
1915

McINNESS, D
Lance Corporal
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
25th Sep 1915
25th
Sep
1915

McINNES, A
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
13th Nov 1916
13th
Nov
1916

McINNES, J L
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
16th Jan 1916
16th
Jan
1916

McNEISH, J
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
14th Jul 1916
14th
Jul
1916

McAINSH, J
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
20th Jan 1917
20th
Jan
1917

McINNES, D
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
20th Nov 1917
20th
Nov
1917

McINNES, D
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
23rd Apr 1917
23rd
Apr
1917

McINNES, D
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
23rd Apr 1917
23rd
Apr
1917

McINNES, M
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
24th Apr 1917
24th
Apr
1917

McINNES, W
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
25th Apr 1917
25th
Apr
1917

McANSH, H
Piper
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
26th Jul 1918
26th
Jul
1918

McGINNES, J
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
24th Aug 1918
24th
Aug
1918

McINNES, A
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
14th Dec 1918
14th
Dec
1918

McINNES, A
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
18th Apr 1918
18th
Apr
1918

McINNES, D
Lance Corporal
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
30th Jul 1918
30th
Jul
1918

McINNES, D
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
22nd Oct 1918
22nd
Oct
1918

McINNES, P
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
14th Oct 1918
14th
Oct
1918

NEISH, A M
Second Lieutenant
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
24th Mar 1918
24th
Mar
1918

MacINNES, A
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
31st Mar 1942
31st
Mar
1942

MACINNES, J
Second Lieutenant
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1st Jan 1942
1st
Jan
1942

MACINNES, N
Warrant Officer Class I
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
10th Jan 1942
10th
Jan
1942

McINNES, W T H
Serjeant
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
24th Oct 1942
24th
Oct
1942

McNEISH, M D
Private
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
13th Jan 1942
13th
Jan
1942

McINNES, D
Serjeant
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
17th Apr 1943
17th
Apr
1943