Colonel Andrew Man, DSO, OBE, veteran of the Campaign in North-West Europe and the Korean War was born on February 22, 1907. He died on November 1^st 2000 aged 93.

Andrew Man twice commanded a battalion of The Middlesex Regiment in war but more recently preferred to explain he was the young officer required to witness Brigadier "One-Eye" Brunskill ordering Countess Ranfurly, author of the 1995 bestseller To War With Whitaker, to leave the Middle East. She stayed but he did not.

Two days after D-Day he was in command of 1/7th Middlesex when they landed as the machine-gun battalion of the 51st (Highland) Division. He survived the battles of Normandy, Belgium and Holland and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre.

This proved useful experience for his later command of 1st Middlesex in Korea in 1950-51. The battalion was in Hong Kong when North Korea invaded the South in June 1950, and was sent at short notice, with 1st Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, to provide the initial British component of the American led United Nations force.

Asked on arrival by a quayside journalist why his regiment did not have the bagpipes, to which the Argylls marched ashore, Man unsmilingly replied "Well, the Scots need those contraptions to fight with". Both battalions faced a tough time.

The 27th Commonwealth Brigade, to which both units belonged, took part in the stiff fighting around Songju in September, the pursuit of the North Korean forces towards the Yalu river in October and, following entry of the Chinese forces into the war, the withdrawal to Chasan. In the latter stages of this phase, 1st Middlesex were glad to receive two Argyll pipers to lift their spirits on the march southwards.

Man was awarded the DSO for his resolute leadership during this trying period of varying military fortunes and he briefly commanded 27th Commonwealth Brigade in December 1950. He also received the United States Legion of Merit.

He kept in regular touch with many members of his regiment who served with him in Korea. He was to have led the Korean War Veterans' Association march past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day, but died on November 1.