He was interviewed in 1970 for an article in the Evening Telegraph.
He said: “Once on returning home, I went into the dining room and the parlour maid arrived with a silver salver on which a cylindrical turn was standing upright. She laid it on the dining room table. To my horror I recognised it as a container holding 30 detonators. I picked it up very carefully and laid it aside. The maid told me that a soldier on a motorbike had warned her not to drop it."
“Sometimes I was landed with pounds and pounds of plastic explosives, as well as detonators, high explosive fuses, and all the necessary material for warfare that I would pass on to the members of my section. One night, I was distributing stuff in an old Morris 8 which was towing a trailer. The car was full of high explosives and detonators, and the trailer was bursting at the seams with incendiary bombs. On my journey I ran into the worst thunderstorm I’ve ever encountered. Lightning was flashing all around me. I became rather scared but then I thought that if I was struck by lightning, it wouldn’t matter whether I was carrying explosives or not.”
| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fife Group 4 - Angus | Group Commander | Unknown | 03 Dec 1944 |
| Fife Group 4 - Angus | Area Commander | Unknown | 03 Dec 1944 |
Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Landed proprietor
Area and Group Commander of Group 4. Known by the name Sir Torquil he was previously a 2nd Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards and was a keen piper until he broke a finger. He was the 5th Baronet of Lindertis and a Justice of the Peace for County Angus. It appears he was also in change of the regular Home Guard.
The son of Sir Hugh and Selina Munro. He married Beatrice Maude Whitaker in the British Consulate, Palermo, Italy but the couple divorced in 1932. He later married Averil Hunter.
