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WILLIAM MACNAIR >> I'm Lieutenant Colonel William Macnair.
And I was a Queen's Own Highlander all through my career, which was 1971 to 1992.
FREDDIE MACNAIR >> My name's Captain Freddie Macnair.
I commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the Highlanders in 2005.
And I am now actually a member of the Royal Regiment of Scotland because in 2006 all the regiments amalgamated.
And I've recently been a member of the Highlanders, 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
WILLIAM MACNAIR >> We think that this is Neville Cameron [points to miniature portrait]
who was an officer in the East India Company in the late 18th and early 19th century.
He's not a direct ancestor.
He is the brother of this one [points to portrait], who is the ancestor.
This is my great-great-grandfather, William Gordon Cameron,
who was a guardsman, a Grenadier guardsman.
He fought at Barossa [1811] and at Waterloo [1815] and actually you can see that he's missing an arm.
He lost an arm at Waterloo as one of the staff officers of Wellington.
And then, because of the Army being reduced after the Napoleonic Wars,
he served in the Hanoverian Army.
When he was serving in Germany there were allegations made by this gentleman, William Cameron,
that somebody had been fiddling the money on the collections at the garrison church.
But because the German clergyman couldn't fight duels,
somebody challenged my great-great-grandfather to a duel on his behalf.
And it was very clearly understood that you would go out into a field somewhere
and then both of you would fire into the air.
So this gentleman who was doing just the nice thing, standing in for the clergyman,
went and stood in the field and what they call 'deloped' - fired into the air.
At which point 'the odious Colonel C', with his very smart new pistols
which he'd bought for the occasion, took a careful bead on him and shot him.
And that caused a lot of adverse comment.
And you've actually got all the correspondence here in the National Army Museum.
And he sent his sons to the Royal Military Academy at Dresden because he thought that
the Saxon military training was the best at the time.
And his eldest son ended up as a full general, General Sir William.
And his younger son, Aylmer, got the VC [Victoria Cross] in the Indian Mutiny [1857-59].
General Sir William, my great-grandfather, who fought in the Crimea [1854-56],
and in Abyssinia [1868] - what we now know as Ethiopia - he had four sons,
three of whom died as a result of war.
But one survived, Neville, and he had a son and three daughters.
The son was sadly killed in October 1944, which was the end of the Camerons.
But one of his sisters, Margaret, was my mother.
And she had an older sister, Sibyl.
And Sibyl had a son who served at almost exactly the same time as me, Neville Washington.
And then also in the same regiment, in the same battalion, my first cousin on my father's side
also served in the same regiment.... and my brother did as well.
So at one stage there were four of us serving.
And then Hugh, who was the last serving of that generation, actually overlapped with Freddie.
So there has been continuous service, one way and another, since the first half of the 18th century.