Keith William Rutherford Glasgow, DSO^[1]

1902 - 1958  (55 years)

• Name	Keith William Rutherford Glasgow
  Suffix	DSO
  Birth	21 Nov 1902	Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 October 1958	Waikanae, Wellington, New Zealand
  Person ID	I172028664545	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	William Thompson Glasgow,   b. 24 Nov 1842, Rajkote, Gujerat, India d. 3 Jul 1924, Dunedin, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand (Age 81 years)
  Mother	May Beatrice Thomson,   b. 20 Jan 1870, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia d. 6 Nov 1955, Auckland, New Zealand (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	1900	New Zealand   [2]
  Family ID	F1948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 21 Nov 1902 - Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Death - 4 October 1958 - Waikanae, Wellington, New Zealand  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  DSO: NZ Gazette, 21 September 1944. Citation: "On 6th March 1943 at Medenine, Lieutenant Colonel K.W.R. Glasgow commanded his Regiment with conspicuous success and gallantry. His regiment was responsible for a zone of observation through which the hostile tanks approached. He calmly withheld all fire until the enemy tanks ran up against our forward six pounder (A/T) guns and with conspicuous skill and alacrity dealt with the infantry and soft skinned vehicles following the tanks, inflicting very heavy casualties on them and causing them to disperse. So well had he deployed his OPs to cover the zone that for the remainder of the day he was able to bring the maximum fire to bear on all the targets which later presented themselves, and the successful action fought on that day was due to a very large extent to his initiative and skill in collecting target information and disseminating it to the proper quarters. Despite intermittent shelling of his regiment area during the day Lt Col Glasgow persisted with his duties, keeping magnificent control of the situation throughout. Throughout a long period of Regimental command Lieutenant Colonel Glasgow has shown himself a forceful leader and able administrator; most competent at training and his conduct under fire at all times has been a source of inspiration to all those around him." · CO (Commanding Officer) of 14 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, May 1941. · CO of 5 Field Regiment, December 1941. · Commander 6 NZ Division, New Zealand, May 1943. · GSO1 (General Staff Officer, grade 1), Maadi Camp, Egypt, 1944. · Member of NZ Contingent to Victory Parade, London, 1946. http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/36290.detail

  
  

• Sources

  [S370259668] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. [S370270368] Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).