John Davie (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-Colonel John Davie MBE MC (3 March 1921 – 29 June 2015) was a British army officer who served on an anti-aircraft battery during the Siege of Malta and later won the Military Cross fighting communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency.

In November it was shut down because of the threat of a German invasion, and Davie joined the ranks of the Royal Artillery.

After serving in the Malta Campaign, he went to a War Office Selection Board in Cairo and was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders.

Joining the regiment's 6th Battalion, he saw active service in Mandate Palestine, the Italian Campaign, and north-west Europe, finding himself in Lübeck at the end of the war.

[2] Remaining in the army as a regular soldier, in 1948 Davie served with the 1st Battalion the Seaforth Highlanders in the Malaya Emergency, commanding a company in jungle fighting and leading it for eighteen months in operations against the Communist terrorists, gaining the Military Cross.