No worries Wander00, and I can sympathise having been subjected to very similar night-time weather, and daytime temperatures in the mid 30s, close to Uzes last week, although I have to admit that the thunderstorms did not keep me awake.
Royal Scots Fusiliers, and Niven did not want to join the HLI.
As a contrast, it may be of interest that a certain Air Commodore** Winston Churchill was quite happy to join the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and took command of the 6th Battalion on the Western Front in 1915, following the unsuccessful Gallipoli campaign, before it was amalgamated with the 7th Battalion, whose CO was senior to Churchill and so took command of the 6/7th, and Churchill returned to the Commons.
Jack
** Military Aviation link
