Lieutenant-Colonel J.W. Tweedie
2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

His explosions of wrath, like squalls of rain soon blew over. A devout Catholic, he was in fact a sensitive and very kind-hearted man … a worrier, prone to periods of self-doubt.

(Quoted in Ian Daglish, Operation Epsom)

Born on 5 June 1907 in British India, John William Tweedie was commissioned with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders after graduating from RMC, Sandhurst in 1926. He was aide-de-camp to the governor-general of New Zealand in 1931 and was battalion adjutant from 1936 to 1939. He attended staff college and became staff, captain, brigade major, then general staff officer for higher formations.

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