Lamont William John Piper 2759608 - Revision history

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 |Army number=2759608
 |Rank=Piper
-|Decorations=M.M - gazetted 30/9/1941 for distinguished service in the field (commonly awarded to successful escaping PoWs), 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, British War Medal.
+|Decorations=Military Medal - gazetted 30/9/1941 for distinguished service in the field (commonly awarded to successful escaping PoWs), 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, British War Medal.
 |Date of birth=21-Jan-20 according to Army Records (family information confirms 21/1/1920).
 |Age=64 at the time of his death.
 |Unit=Enlisted in the Black Watch in Dundee 6/3/1940 as a Regular soldier.  Posted immediately to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served BEF - disembarked for France 24/4/1940.  Reported Missing 21/5/1940.  Captured 1/6/1940 at Cambrai (notification as having been captured received on 3/9/1940 but with no indication of location).  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 to No. 8 Infantry Training Centre (Perth) as a returned PoW.  Posted 10th Battalion Black Watch 9/10/1941.  Joined draft for Overseas Service 11/11/1943.  Disembarked 27/4/1943.  Served Middle East.  Posted 6th Battalion Black Watch.  Served Central Mediterranean Force - Italy.  Struck off strength Middle East Force on return to the UK 1/4/1946.  Disembarked UK 11/6/1946.  Released 11/6/1946.  Posted to the Class Z Reserve 19/9/46.
 Joined 4/5 Cameron Highlanders 14/6/1952 and attended Training Camp at Stobs Camp - completing the training by 23/6/1952.
-|Company/Battery=Battalion Headquarters.
+|Company/Battery=Battalion Headquarters.  HQ Company.
-|Platoon or other sub-unit=Pipe Band.
+|Platoon or other sub-unit=Battalion Pipe Band.
 |Joined Brigade=6/3/1940.  Appears to have undergone Primary Training while with 1st TS, rather than at a Primary Training Centre.
 |Task or role=Piper.
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 |Wounded=Admitted to No. 53 General Hospital 21/8/1945, discharged back to 6th Battalion 27/8/1945.  Admitted to No. 53 General Hospital 14/11/1945 and discharged back to Battalion 26/11/1945 (condition details not known).
 |Died/Killed in action=Date of death 25/1/1984 in Capalaba, Queensland, Australia.
-|Home address=Mother - Mrs Rose L. Whamond - living at 20, Mansfield Street, Leslie, Fife.  Was a member of the Leslie Pipe Band and subsequently the Caledonian Pipe Band, Kirkcaldy.  Worked as a painter and decorator.  Married Josephine Collette Thomas Q1 1948, Swansea.  Lived at 9, Wales Road, Kinlochleven, Argyll.  Emigrated to Australia.
+|Home address=Mother - Mrs Rose L. Whamond - living at 20, Mansfield Street, Leslie, Fife.  He was a member of the Leslie Pipe Band and subsequently the Caledonian Pipe Band, Kirkcaldy.  Worked as a painter and decorator.  Married Josephine Collette Thomas Q1 1948, Swansea.  Lived at 9, Wales Road, Kinlochleven, Argyll.  Emigrated to Australia.
 |Image Name=Lamont_06.jpg
 |Image Title=Piper William John LAMONT

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−	[[File:~~Lamont_03~~.jpg\|800px\|thumb\|centre\|1st Tyneside Scottish Pipes and Drums. Photo ~~may well~~ have been taken on 13/4/1940 along with other Battalion photographs at Burt Terrace, Gateshead. Cpl Drummer Lapsley is also visible in the group]]	+	[[File:Lamont_08_Burt_Terrace.jpg\|800px\|thumb\|centre\|1st Tyneside Scottish Pipes and Drums. Piper Lamont in rear rank. Photo appears to have been taken on 13/4/1940 along with other Battalion photographs at Burt Terrace, Gateshead. Cpl Drummer Lapsley is also visible in the front rank of the group]]

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 |Died/Killed in action=Date of death 25/1/1984 in Capalaba, Queensland, Australia.
 |Home address=Mother - Mrs Rose L. Whamond - living at 20, Mansfield Street, Leslie, Fife.  Was a member of the Leslie Pipe Band and subsequently the Caledonian Pipe Band, Kirkcaldy.  Worked as a painter and decorator.  Married Josephine Collette Thomas Q1 1948, Swansea.  Lived at 9, Wales Road, Kinlochleven, Argyll.  Emigrated to Australia.
-|Image Name=File:Lamont_06.jpg
+|Image Name=Lamont_06.jpg
 |Image Title=Piper William John LAMONT
 |Source table=1TS

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 |Died/Killed in action=Date of death 25/1/1984 in Capalaba, Queensland, Australia.
 |Home address=Mother - Mrs Rose L. Whamond - living at 20, Mansfield Street, Leslie, Fife.  Was a member of the Leslie Pipe Band and subsequently the Caledonian Pipe Band, Kirkcaldy.  Worked as a painter and decorator.  Married Josephine Collette Thomas Q1 1948, Swansea.  Lived at 9, Wales Road, Kinlochleven, Argyll.  Emigrated to Australia.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}

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 |Unit=Enlisted in the Black Watch in Dundee 6/3/1940 as a Regular soldier.  Posted immediately to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served BEF - disembarked for France 24/4/1940.  Reported Missing 21/5/1940.  Captured 1/6/1940 at Cambrai (notification as having been captured received on 3/9/1940 but with no indication of location).  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 to No. 8 Infantry Training Centre (Perth) as a returned PoW.  Posted 10th Battalion Black Watch 9/10/1941.  Joined draft for Overseas Service 11/11/1943.  Disembarked 27/4/1943.  Served Middle East.  Posted 6th Battalion Black Watch.  Served Central Mediterranean Force - Italy.  Struck off strength Middle East Force on return to the UK 1/4/1946.  Disembarked UK 11/6/1946.  Released 11/6/1946.  Posted to the Class Z Reserve 19/9/46.
 Joined 4/5 Cameron Highlanders 14/6/1952 and attended Training Camp at Stobs Camp - completing the training by 23/6/1952.
-|Company/Battery=Battalion Headquarters (Pipe Band).
+|Company/Battery=Battalion Headquarters.
 |Joined Brigade=6/3/1940.  Appears to have undergone Primary Training while with 1st TS, rather than at a Primary Training Centre.
 |Task or role=Piper.

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 |Task or role=Piper.
 |Promotions=Promoted Acting Unpaid Lance Corporal 24/9/1944.  Returned to rank of Private at own request 27/10/1944.
-|Prisoner of War=PoW Loekeren, Belgium and in unoccupied France before his second escape.
+|Prisoner of War=PoW Loekeren, Belgium and in unoccupied France before his second escape.  No details of PoW or Camp numbers available.
 |Wounded=Admitted to No. 53 General Hospital 21/8/1945, discharged back to 6th Battalion 27/8/1945.  Admitted to No. 53 General Hospital 14/11/1945 and discharged back to Battalion 26/11/1945 (condition details not known).
-|Died/Killed in action=Date of death 25/1/1984.
+|Died/Killed in action=Date of death 25/1/1984 in Capalaba, Queensland, Australia.
-|Home address=20, Mansfield Street, Leslie, Fife.  Worked as a painter and decorator.  Married Josephine C Thomas Q1 1948, Swansea.  Emigrated to Australia.
+|Home address=Mother - Mrs Rose L. Whamond - living at 20, Mansfield Street, Leslie, Fife.  Was a member of the Leslie Pipe Band and subsequently the Caledonian Pipe Band, Kirkcaldy.  Worked as a painter and decorator.  Married Josephine Collette Thomas Q1 1948, Swansea.  Lived at 9, Wales Road, Kinlochleven, Argyll.  Emigrated to Australia.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}
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 Sincere thanks are due to Piper Lamont's granddaughter for family and Service Record information and photographs.  These images are set out below and are quite typical Army "group" shots.
 [[File:Lamont_02.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|Piper Lamont is believed to be the soldier in kilted dress]]

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 |Rank=Piper
 |Decorations=M.M, 1939-45 Star, Italy Star.
-|Date of birth=12-Jan-20 (family information indicates 20/1/1920).
+|Date of birth=21-Jan-20 (family information indicates 20/1/1920).
 |Age=64 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Black Watch in Dundee 6/3/1940 as a Regular soldier.  Posted 1 TS - presumably after preminary training.  Served BEF - disembarked for France 24/4/1940.  Reported Missing 21/5/1940.  Captured 1/6/1940 Cambrai (notification as having been captured received on 3/9/1940 but with no indication of location).  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 to No. 8 Infantry Training Centre (Perth) as a returned PoW.  Posted 10th Battalion Black Watch 9/10/1941.  Joined draft for Overseas Service 11/11/1943.  Disembarked 27/4/1943.  Served Middle East.  Posted 6th Battalion Black Watch.  Served Central Mediterranean Force - Italy.  Struck off strength Middle East Force on return to the UK 1/4/1946.  Disembarked UK 11/6/1946.  Released 11/6/1946.  Posted to the Class Z Reserve 19/9/46.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Black Watch in Dundee 6/3/1940 as a Regular soldier.  Posted immediately to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served BEF - disembarked for France 24/4/1940.  Reported Missing 21/5/1940.  Captured 1/6/1940 at Cambrai (notification as having been captured received on 3/9/1940 but with no indication of location).  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 to No. 8 Infantry Training Centre (Perth) as a returned PoW.  Posted 10th Battalion Black Watch 9/10/1941.  Joined draft for Overseas Service 11/11/1943.  Disembarked 27/4/1943.  Served Middle East.  Posted 6th Battalion Black Watch.  Served Central Mediterranean Force - Italy.  Struck off strength Middle East Force on return to the UK 1/4/1946.  Disembarked UK 11/6/1946.  Released 11/6/1946.  Posted to the Class Z Reserve 19/9/46.
-|Joined Brigade=Thought to have been shortly after enlistment - unsure whether he underwent Primary Training before posting, or with 1st TS.
+|Joined Brigade=6/3/1940.  Appears to have undergone Primary Training while with 1st TS.
 |Task or role=Piper.
 |Promotions=Promoted Acting Unpaid Lance Corporal 24/9/1944.  Returned to rank of Private at own request 27/10/1944.

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		+	The Citation for Piper Lamont's Military Medal was researched by the late Major Mike Spurrier and was sent to the researcher in personal correspondence - that unstinting help in dealing with the Brigade's medal awards is acknowledged with considerable gratitude.
	Sincere thanks are due to Piper Lamont's granddaughter for family and Service Record information and photographs. These images are set out below and are quite typical Army "group" shots.		Sincere thanks are due to Piper Lamont's granddaughter for family and Service Record information and photographs. These images are set out below and are quite typical Army "group" shots.