The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

DelBoy · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject: Thomas Matheson C.B.E. J.P.

Located in the Foyer at the Royal British Legion in Arbroath's Helen Street clubrooms is this tribute to founding Thomas Matheson.

IN APPRECIATION OF THE FAITHFUL SERVICE
GIVEN BY

THOMAS MATHESON C.B.E. J.P.

LIFE PRESIDENT OF THIS BRANCH WHO DIED ON
14TH SEPTEMBER 1984

A VETERN OF THE 1914-18 WAR HE DEVOTED
HIMSELF FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE TO THE
WELFARE OF EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN AND
THEIR DEPENDANTS
HE BROUGHT HONOUR TO THIS BRANCH WHEN HE
SERVED AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN FROM
1958 TO 1962

HE RENDERED NOTABLE SERVICE ALSO TO THE EARL
HAIG FUND (SCOTLAND) AND THE OFFICERS
ASSOCIATION SCOTTISH BRANCH

"SERVICE NOT SELF"

Keptie · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:07 am Post subject: Tom Matheson CBE JP

Tom had served in the Black Watch in the Great War and I think he was a Tax Inspector in Arbroath . He was a great Royal British Legion (Scotland ) official and was for a time National Chairman of the organisation . He worked along side Brigadier James A Oliver ( Black Watch of WW2 ) (my godfather ) during these 1960s days when I worked in the legal office . Mr Tom Mathieson worked in my office in Clark Oliver Dewar & Webster in Arbroath . He was a very well liked gentleman in Arbroath and around the Royal British Legion (Scotland ) . [ Think then the Royal British Legion (Scotland ) had brakets around the word Scotland ! ]

patrick w anderson

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