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Promotion
We wish to congratulate Mr John Morrison of the Metropolitan
Police on his promotion to the rank of Commander at
Scotland Yard. The post, which entails charge of the
Regional Crime Squad for the whole of London, is one
of only nine such squads in all England. This is indeed
a proud step forward for a lad who left Tolsta School
at the age of 14 and who never saw a secondary thereafter.
Commander
Morrison |
The
new Police Commander is a son of the late Mr and
Mrs John Morrison of 4 New Tolsta.
Like most of his contemporaries he joined the
RNR before the war and was called up in 1939.
He left the Navy in 1946 as a leading seaman and
joined the Metropolitan Police in 1947, climbing
the ladder of promotion ever since.
Mr
Morrison has a family of four and is married to
Annie Morrison of North Dell, who is a sister
of Alexander Morrison, Chief Constable of Aberdeen.
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Mrs
Morrison, a schoolteacher, is one of the leading lights
of London Gaelic circles.
Tolsta
is proud to add the name of John Morrison to the list
of its distinguished sons. To us it has always been
a source of wonder that Lewis, after two centuries of
emigration and one century of educational creaming,
can still produce men of such talent. In this we must
agree with the truth of the Gaelic proverb ‘Theid
dualachas an agaidh nan creag.’
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