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Those known to have served with 5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Graham Alfred. Sgt. (d.18th Jan 1945)
- Jennison Uriah. L/Sgt. (d.30th December 1944)
- McAlaney William. L/Cpl. (d.2nd January 1944)
- Nelson Adam John Carswell. Pte. (d.18th January 1945)
- Watson John Lawrence Stuart. Lt. (d.29th November 1944)
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Pte. Adam John Carswell Nelson 5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion Highland Light Infantry (d.18th January 1945) Adam Nelson was the 5th son of Adam & Ellen Nelson who had 8 children, their eldest son was James Douglas Nelson born in Glengarnock in 1908. James Nelson married Bertha Beadle in June 1934 in Largs. Sadly James passed away on 27th February 1943 due to ill health.
His wife Bertha lived in Dalmuir, Clydebank with her 4 daughters until her death in January 1999. Their youngest daughter Sarah Douglas Nelson born 23rd October 1943 married my father, Alexander Kidd Cummings, born 30th March 1940 in Clydebank on 11th November 1960 in Clydebank.
Adam was born in 1917 and killed at age 27 on 18th of January 1945, whilst serving with his unit near Sittard Nederland's. He is buried in the Sittard War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Sadly, with his loss his parents Adam & Ellen Nelson lost 2 children in little over a year.
Neither my Grandfather Nelson (James)& his Brother lived to see the end of the war.
On my father, Alexander Kidd Cummings's side of the family, his father, Alexander Kidd Cummings (Snr), was employed by Singer's (Manufacturing munitions & war supplies) in Clydebank & served in the Home Guard during the War, running along the factory roofs sweeping off incendiary bombs during the Clydebank Blitz with a broom. His elder brother, Sergeant Robert Allison Cummings, served in the Highland Regiment from 1932 to 1946 was a survivor of the Dunkirk Evacuation on 1st June 1940. Robert Alexander Cummings
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Lt. John Lawrence Stuart Watson 7th/9th Btn. Royal Scots (attached 5th Highland Light Infantry) (d.29th November 1944)  Lawrie Watson served with the Territorial 7th/9th Battalion, Royal Scots mobilised in Scotland in September 1939, the 7th/9th was briefly deployed to France with the 155th Infantry Brigade, alongside the 4th and 5th King's Own Scottish Borderers of the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division before the collapse of the French government, but was quickly withdrawn.
He was then attached to the 5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry which landed in France as part of the 157th Brigade in the 52nd (Lowland) Division in June 1940. After evacuation from Cherbourg later in the month, they landed in Belgium in October 1944 and took part in Operation Infatuate in November 1944.
The 5th Battalion remained at Bergen-op-Zoom till 25th November, performing much necessary maintenance to equipment and person and generally resting after its labours on Beveland and Walcheren.
On 25th November it moved to Waalwijk on the south bank of the River Maas, taking over from the Algonquin Regiment, 1st Canadian Army.
Waalwijk was an extraordinary sector in many ways. It was the front line, the enemy held the north bank of the river, yet the town was full of civilians and, by day, everything was very normal and peaceful. Between them and the river stretched a flooded polder about three quarters of a mile across. This was perfectly flat, and the village was under direct enemy observation, but the houses themselves, which were continuous, screened any movement by troops. Oddly enough the enemy never shelled them.
At night the situation was rather different. Every night at least one patrol was sent out to recce the bank of the Maas. On the night of 29th November my grandfather was killed on patrol, probably by a fixed-line machine gun and although subsequent patrols attempted to locate and recover his body this was not accomplished till the night of 2nd December.
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