Christmas Dinner on 25 December 1944, Russi, Italy. Corporal Grieg and Padre Roy Durnford singing. Captain J. D. Pierce on the lower left. Lower right is Captain D. I. Fairweather. (Picture used in regimental history) DND photo UN-394-7. From the Regimental history: "Christmas Day itself was cold and clear with very little shelling, and on the following day the Seaforths were relieved and went back over the Lamone to billets in Russi. Here, on the 27th, the Seaforths celebrated Christmas. It was clear, sunny and cold when the first company filed noisily into the large windowless building facing the town square of Russi. The banquet hall with its high ceiling was large enough to hold one company at a time, so six sittings had been arranged and the officers and sergeants were kept busy until nightfall serving turkey and pork with all the trimmings to the men. The hall had been decorated, the Pipes and Drums were in attendance, Padre Durnford led the carol singing, and perhaps best of all, unlike the last Christmas when one company left to go back into the line to kill or be killed, the men could return in peace to their billets. "An atmosphere of festivity prevailed over the assembly," wrote the war diarist, "which spoke volumes for the organization which had so largely contributed to its success." From mid-morning until eight in the evening the cooks worked valiantly. After turkey and vegetables came the Christmas pudding with rum sauce and the minces pie washed down with beer. Then tea or coffee, apples and oranges, nuts and candy-indeed it was a feast which would have matched anything the cooks might have put on under the most favourable peacetime conditions." Cpl Greig, From the Regimental History, page 371-372: "K52470 Corporal L. L. Greig enlisted in the Seaforths on 28 September, 1939. A veteran of the Great War, he never took advantage of his age when it came to sharing the hard work and hazards of younger men either at the front or in rest. For some time he had been sanitation corporal, and in action he would frequently be found helping in the Regimental Aid Post or scouring the battlefield under fire with the stretcher bearers. Often, he helped Padre Durnford who time and again, missed death by inches when giving comfort to the wounded or who had the sad, unenviable task of collecting the dead. Greig, a bachelor, asked if the leave to Canada might be given to a married veteran and this was granted. "This shining example of unselfish devotion," states Greig's citation for the British Empire Medal, "had a great morale effect on all his regiment." It went hand in hand with his cheerfulness, his courage and his contribution to the Seaforth spirit which made him so well known and well liked by all ranks." He was also mentioned in despatches. He served in the Seaforths until 25 September 1945.