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{{Personnel
|id=282
|Surname and forenames=Lamont William John
|Army number=2759608
|Rank=Piper
|Decorations=M.M
|Date of birth=12-Jan-20 (family information indicates 20/1/1920).
|Age=0
|Unit=Enlisted in the Black Watch in early 1939 as a Regular soldier(exact date not yet confirmed).  Posted to ? Battalion.  Posted 1 TS - presumably after 1/2/1940.  Served BEF.  Captured 1/6/1940 Cambrai.  Escaped from Loekeren 4/8/1940.  Recaptured in unoccupied France.   Escaped for a second time 15/4/1941.  Reached Gibraltar and evacuated to the UK - arriving Greenock 14/6/1941.   Posted 10th Battalion Black Watch 9/10/1941.  Released 11/6/1946.  Posted to the Class Z Reserve 19/9/46.
|Joined Brigade=Thought to have been shortly after 1/2/1940.
|Prisoner of War=PoW Loekeren, Belgium and in Unoccupied France before his second escape.
|Died/Killed in action=25/1/1984.
|Home address=20, Mansfield Street, Leslie, Fife.  Worked as a painter and decorator.  Married Josephine C Thomas Q1 1948, Swansea.  Emigrated to Australia.
|Source table=1TS
}}


Sincere thanks are due to Pte Lamont's granddaughter for family and Service Record information and photographs.