He often packed his Hillhead strip in his linesman kit bag - unbeknownst to his wife - in case the 'team was ever short'.
He joined the Home Guard for the rest of the Second World War while studying at university.
He then joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1948 and went to Myanmar as part of the Burma mission.
He joined a General Practice in Govan with the former swimmer Dr Mirrlees Chassels.
So much so that he joined the Loch Lomond Sailing Club; that bit closer to Glasgow than Campeltown.
I had a pin through my knee and kept yelping as he pushed me up the stairs grunting: ‘Just a few more steps…’ he was a truly lovely man and a huge part of my early life.