7th.9th Royal Scots Church Parade.
Officers when they had marched with their Companies would fall in on either side of the Church entrance. The Field Officers wore the kilt and carried ash walking sticks. When the last Company and entered the Church the Commanding Officer would lead the officers to their pews. When I joined the Battalion in 1943 our Padre was the Rev Ronald Selby Wright who, at the beginning of the Second World War, was the Radio Padre and broadcast regularly on the BBC. Early on he would get you to walk with him on some pretext of other, and as we met groups of Royal Scots would stop to talk. His rapport with them was obvious and a lesson was there to be learnt on how to really know the lads we were privileged to serve with; generally he used first names, knew about their family life and frequent banter about one or other of the two Edinburgh Football Teams. It was a first-class lesson for a young officer on good personnel relations and leadership. Joe Brown.
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