Friend or Foe

Bill Doig

1951

Friend or Foe by Bill Doig

In February 1951, I was a National Serviceman finishing my time in the infantry. I had spent my service with the Gordon Highlanders in the army of occupation in Berlin (B.A.O.R.). When the Gordon's left Berlin in December 1950 to go to Malaya, a number of us stayed on in Berlin, now soldiers in the Black Watch who replaced the Gordon's. The C.O. of the Black Watch was Brigadier Bernard Ferguson, the former column leader of Orde Wingate's Chindits who fought the Japanese in the Burma campaign. ... (continues)