71172 Lord Douglas Claude Alexander GORDON, DSO, Black Watch

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    Personal Number: 71172
    Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel
    Name: Lord Douglas Claude Alexander GORDON, DSO
    Unit: 6 Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)


    Edinburgh Gazette : 14 December 1937
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/15448/page/991/data.pdf
    THE KING has been graciously pleased to ordain and declare that Adam Granville Gordon, Roderic Armyne Gordon, and Douglas Claude Alexander Gordon, the brothers of Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, shall henceforth have hold and enjoy the same title, rank, place, pre-eminence, and precedence as the sons of a Marquess as would have been due to them had their late father, Granville Cecil Douglas Gordon, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant-Colonel the Welsh Guards, survived his uncle Charles Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, and had thereby succeeded to the title and dignity of Marquess of Huntly.

    London Gazette : 30 January 1945
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36912/supplement/619/data.pdf
    Black Watch.
    Lt. (War Subs. Capt.) Lord Douglas C. A. Gordon (71172) to be Capt., 28th Jan. 1945.

    London Gazette : 8 February 1945
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36928/supplement/796/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in"Italy: —
    The Distinguished Service Order.
    Captain (temporary Major) The Lord Douglas Claude Alexander Gordon (7:172), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (Godalming)

    London Gazette : 27 March 1945
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36999/supplement/1639/data.pdf
    Black Watch.
    Lt. M. G. Stephen (71171) to be Capt., 28th Jan. 1945, next above Lord Douglas C. A. Gordon.

    London Gazette : 27 January 1950
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38823/supplement/465/data.pdf
    Black Watch.
    Capt. Lord Douglas C. A. GORDON, D.S.O. (71172), to be Maj., 28th Jan. 1950.

    London Gazette : 10 March 1950
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38857/supplement/1208/data.pdf
    Black Watch.
    Capt. M. G. STEPHEN (71171) to be Maj:, 28th Jan. 1950, with precedence next above Maj. Lord Douglas C. A. GORDON, D.S.O. (71172).
     
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