Lieutenant-Colonel J.C. Colquhoun
6th Bn., Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)

“Once a Leinster always a Leinster.”

(Whitton, The History of the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, vol. 2, 96)

Born in Perthshire, Scotland on 31 December 1870, Julian Campbell Colquhoun was the second son of Colonel William Campbell Colquhoun of Clathick Estate. After finishing school, he joined the 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment, was promoted to captain in 1898, and served in the Boer War. He retired to the reserve of officers in 1907 but immediately reported for duty in August 1914. He was posted to the new 6th {Service) Battalion under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Craske.

The 6th Leinsters landed at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915. In the heavy fighting at Sulva Bay, several junior officers were killed and Craske was severely wounded. Command passed to Major R.G.T. Currey, who soon fell sick and was evacuated back home. Colquhoun assumed command at the end of September. He led the 6th Leinisters on the Salonika front until the return of Craske in July 1916.

On 30 September 1916, Colquhoun was severely wounded in an advance against the Bulgarian lines. Two weeks earlier he had inherited Clathick Estate on the death of his father. He received the Distinguished Service Order but would not rejoin the Leinsters, now in France, until summer 1918. The wound would impact his health until his death twenty years later.

He died in Edinburgh on 4 April 1937.