More photos of the 5th Battalion Scots Guards from Chris Rooney
5th Battalion Scots Guards marching through Chamonix, 1940
5th Battalion Scots Guards training in Chamonix: this picture has a few names - Munro was a a well known Skier, it is thought that Cyclops Bradley went to the Small Scale Raiding Force, OBR was Oswald Basil Rooney - later known as Mickey - at this stage he was a Guardsman.
OBR at Chamonix, 1940
OBR on the left. Chamonix.
OBR front right and his mate Basil O'Brien at the back. OBR and Basil joined up in 1939 and they have consecutive army numbers. Basil O'Brian was a rugby playing mate of OBR's at The Harlequins. Basil could ski so he talked OBR into putting his name down "skiing in Chamonix much better than square bashing in London."
OBR front right. Basil O'Brien on his left. Looks like London and might have been as Guardsmen before Chamonix
Playing silly buggers
Chamonix. OBR, then Basil O'Brien
London, probably just before going to Chamonix at a guess
London, probably just before going to Chamonix at a guess
OBR third from right. Basil O'Brien on his left
OBR went to the Scots Guards in Oct 39 so this is between then and Chamonix. Basil O'Brien second from Right in the back row, OBR just above and left of the gentleman in the Bowler hat
No idea who the others are, but of anyone has any ideas and names, would appreciate you posting them.
This is Stirling and his cousin (Gavin) Maxwell (who after WW2 would write the book, Ring of Bright Water). OBR went to same school as Stirling and Lovat. The Stirlings, the Frasers (Lovat) and the Maxwells are all related, Greenlees was another School friend of OBRs.
Newspaper or magazine clipping about the 5th Battalion. The Polish ship mentioned as the Botany was more likely the NS Batory, which had been used to ferry troops and equipment to Narvik.
