"Scotland’s oldest veteran has died at the age of 107. Jimmy Sinclair fought against General Erwin Rommel in the north African desert as a gunner. He received several medals for his service during the Second World War, later serving for two years with the Allied Control Commission in Berlin before returning to Scotland to work as a slater. Mr Sinclair was born in 1912 and brought up in Giffordown, near Ladybank, in Fife. During the Second World War he served with the Chestnut Troop, 1st Regiment Horse Artillery, of the 7th Armoured Division. After the war he moved back to Germany in 1981 following the death of his wife and became a friend of Field Marshal Rommel’s son, Manfred. He returned to Kirkcaldy at the age of 92." www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/national-news/18482457.scotlands-oldest-veteran-dies-aged-107/?fbclid=IwAR0F1PbwTY46p7Oc9yf4K2fQjvLGdcVe6GwfmzK1EvDxrn42OA8YhJgfsEQ