Douglas Charles Lindsey GORDON, 12th Marquess of Huntly, Gordon Highlanders

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    Rank: Lieutenant
    Name: Douglas Charles Lindsey GORDON, 12th Marquess of Huntly
    Unit: Gordon Highlanders


    London Gazette : 10 November 1937
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34453/supplement/7058/data.pdf
    CEREMONIAL OF THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES
    The Lords Temporal present who thus did homage were:—
    MARQUESSES.
    Douglas Charles Lindsey, Marquess of Huntly.

    Edinburgh Gazette : 14 December 1937
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/15448/page/991/data.pdf
    THE KING has beengraciously 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.

    And to command that the said order and declaration be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms and in the Lyon Office in Edinburgh.
     
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