Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 8th Baronet

Sir Ivar Iain Colquhoun, 8th Baronet, JP, DL (4 January 1916 – 31 January 2008) was a British noble. Biography Early life Sir Ivar was the son of Sir Iain Colquhoun, 7th Baronet and his wife Geraldine Bryde (Dinah) Tennant. He was educated at Eton. Career He was working at a lumber camp in Finland at the outbreak of World War II, and joined a Territorial Army battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a private soldier. When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939, he was seconded to the 5th (Ski) Battalion Scots Guards. This was disbanded after Finland was forced to accept Russian terms in March 1940. In April 1940 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and served in Libya during the siege of Tobruk, later to become the subject of some of his drier reminiscences. On 2 September 1944, as a war substantive lieutenant, he was attached to the Grenadier Guards, to serve as a liaison officer, and subsequently as a captain in the Coldstream Guards.