Major Sir Hamish Stewart Forbes, 7th Baronet, MBE, MC, KStJ (15 February 1916 – 3 September 2007) was a British Army officer who served in the Welsh Guards in World War II, spending over five years in German custody as a prisoner of war.
[1] Before World War II, he worked for health salts manufacturer Eno and for sugar broker Czarnikow.
After a short period in Gibraltar, he served as battalion intelligence officer in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940.
He continued to serve in the Welsh Guards after the war, in England, Germany and with CENTO forces in Turkey.
He succeeded his third cousin, Colonel Sir John Stewart Forbes, to be the 7th Baronet in 1984, and also became patron of the Lonach Highland Society that year.
The Society was founded in 1822 by his ancestor Sir Charles Forbes, the 1st Baronet, to preserve and promote Highland culture and the Scottish Gaelic language.