Colonel Euan Henry Houstoun, OBE 1946-2024

 Colonel Euan Henry Houstoun, OBE, died 10 November, 2024, aged 78. He was descended from the Moore-Gwyn landed gentry family.

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in January 1946 and the son of an industrialist, Lindsay Arthur Houstoun (1920-85), and his wife the former Pamela Aileen Madeleine Moore-Gwyn (1922-2003), Euan was educated at Bradfield College. He went on to Mons and was then commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, joining the 1st Battalion in BAOR in 1964. As a Grenadier he served in both battalions in Cyprus, Germany, London, Northern Ireland and in Sharjah, at the Guards Depot, for 3 years at Fort Carson in the USA and also with 22 SAS. He commanded G Squadron during the Falklands War.

He commanded the 1st Battalion in Munster for 2 busy years from April 1988, shortly after the introduction of the new Warrior AFV, and this was followed by command of the Battlegroup Trainer (North) in Catterick. Upon selection for promotion to Colonel he was initially Commandant of the Combined Arms Training Centre and later the Defence Attache in Tel Aviv. He retired from the Army in February 2001 and he was President of the Association for a decade.

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