Major Nigel Rutherford-Young
1942-
Mess Dress, c. 1968
Rutherford-Young
joined the 1st Battalion of the London Scottish Regiment in 1961 as a
private soldier. He was appointed an Officer Cadet in 1967 and gazetted
to the reorganized G (London Scottish) Company, 51st Highland Volunteers
on the 2nd of May, 1968. Rutherford-Young was advanced to lieutenant in
1970 and received his captaincy in 1972. He was promoted to major on
the 1st of November, 1974, and assumed command of the London Scottish
Company. In 1994 the 1st Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers, of which
the London Scottish Company was assigned, was redesignated as the 3rd
(Volunteer) Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
Rutherford-Young retired from the Black Watch (Volunteers) on the 6th of
January 1998.
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