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CARL RANDALL (B. 1975)

James 'Jim' Glennie (b. 1925)

2015

RCIN 408485

Jim Glennie, Private with the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders (predecessor of 7th Battalion (51st Highland) The Royal Regiment of Scotland, of which HRH The Duke of Rothesay is Royal Colonel). Glennie was attached to the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders for the landings on D-Day, subsequently advancing inland and taking up defensive positions near Caen. During a German counter-attack, he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was sent to Stalag IV-B, where he spent the next four months as a prisoner of war.

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