Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of the War Memorial in Markinch village in Fife, Scotland.
World War I Roll Of Honour
ANNANDALE JOHN AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F.
ARTHUR JOHN ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER
BALDIE JAMES LONDON SCOTTISH PRIVATE
BALDIE JOHN B. ROYAL AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT
BALFOUR JAMES A. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CAPTAIN
BALFOUR JOHN SCOTS GUARDS CAPTAIN MILITARY CROSS
BALFOUR ROBERT F. SCOTS GUARDS CAPTAIN
BELL THOMAS BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
BLAIR EDWARD J. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS CAPTAIN MILITARY CROSS
BREWS ALEXANDER SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
BREWS WILLIAM CANADIANS PRIVATE C.E.F.
CAMPBELL ALEXANDER B. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY GUNNER
CAMPBELL D.C. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
CAMPBELL WILLIAM S. TANK CORPS GUNNER
CARMICHAEL COLIN ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE
CARMICHAEL JAMES BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
CHALMERS DAVID ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY CORPORAL DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL
CHRISTIE JAMES ROYAL? PRIVATE
CHRISTIE WILLIAM M. ROYAL ? PRIVATE
DALRYMPLE JAMES ROYAL ? PRIVATE
DEWAR ALLAN BLACK WATCH LANCE CORPORAL
DICKIE WILLIAM MACHINE GUN CORPS PRIVATE
DRUMMOND JOHN ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
DRYBURGH ALEXANDER G. BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
DUNCAN PETER BLACK WATCH LANCE CORPORAL
EWING ALFRED N. CAMERONIANS PRIVATE
EWING ROBERT A.B. CANADIANS PRIVATE C.E.F.
FERGUSON JAMES BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
FERGUSON WILLIAM CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
FLEMING DUNCAN BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
FORD JOHN ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS LANCE CORPORAL
FORRESTER THOMAS UNITED STATES PRIVATE
FOTHERINGHAM JAMES CANADIANS LANCE CORPORAL C.E.F.
GARDINER HARRY D. ROYAL SCOTS CORPORAL
GREEN SAMUEL ROYAL IRISH RIFLES RIFLEMAN
HAXTON JOHN GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
HEMPSEED ROBERT B. ROYAL SCOTS SERGEANT
HERD SAMUEL CANADIANS SERGEANT C.E.F.
HERON FRANCIS T. ROYAL AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT
HUME SAMUEL ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY GUNNER
HUTCHISON GEORGE BLACK WATCH CORPORAL
HUTCHISON GEORGE B. MACHINE GUN CORPS SERGEANT
HUTCHISON THOMAS AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F.
HUTCHISON WILLIAM KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS CORPORAL
IMRIE ALEXANDER MACHINE GUN CORPS PRIVATE
IMRIE GEORGE F. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE
JACK JAMES ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE
KERR WILLIAM F. BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
LAW HENRY CAMERON HIGHLANDERS LANCE CORPORAL
LEE PETER GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
LINDSAY GEORGE BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
MACK ANDREW BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
MACK WILLIAM KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS PRIVATE
MACKAY CHARLES CANADIANS PRIVATE C.E.F.
MACKAY HUGH BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
MACKAY WILLIAM B. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE
MARSHALL ROBERT BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
MITCHELL GEORGE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
MORGAN DUNCAN BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
OSWALD WILLIAM ROYAL ? PRIVATE
PATON DAVID CANADIANS PRIVATE C.E.F.
PATON JAMES ROYAL ? PRIVATE
PETERS JAMES ROYAL ? PRIVATE
RAMAGE JAMES S. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE
RITCHIE ROBERT ROYAL ENGINEERS SAPPER
SCOTT WILLIAM BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
SHANNON IAN H.C. BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
SINCLAIR THOMAS ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER
SPITTAL JAMES BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
SPITTAL PHILIP BLACK WATCH LANCE CORPORAL
SUTHERLAND J. NEIL BLACK WATCH LANCE CORPORAL
TAYLOR THOMAS BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
TERRAS JOHN CANADIANS SERGEANT C.E.F.
THOMSON JOHN ROYAL SCOTS SERGEANT
TULLIS J. DRYSDALE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS CAPTAIN
TULLIS WILLIAM ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS CAPTAIN
WADDELL DONALD KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS PRIVATE
WATT G.M. BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
WHITE ROBERT SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
WHITECROSS WILLIAM BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
WILLIAMSON J. GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
WILSON JOHN GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
WISHART GEORGE CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
WISHART JAMES CANADIANS PRIVATE C.E.F.
WRIGHT JAMES M. ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER
World War 2 Roll Of Honour
ANDERSON ANDREW ? PRIVATE
BLACK EDWARD J. RECONNAISSANCE CORPS SERGEANT
CAIRA DANIEL ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE
CHALMERS ROBERT W. ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFTMAN
COLVILLE ROBERT MERCHANT NAVY ?
DOWNIE JOHN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT AIR GUNNER
DRYBURGH WALTER ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING OFFICER
DUKE ANDREW GORDON HIGHLANDERS LANCE SERGEANT
DUKE GEORGE BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
EASSON ALEXANDER ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS LIEUTENANT
GOURDIE JAMES ROYAL ENGINEERS SAPPER
GRIEVE ANDREW T. ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING OFFICER
HARVEY WILLIAM I. ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING OFFICER
HOUSTON HENRY H. ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
JACK JAMES B. ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS CORPORAL
LAW JOHN ? PRIVATE
MCARTHUR JOHN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT AIR GUNNER
MCFADYEN WILLIAM KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS PRIVATE
MURRAY THOMAS ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING OFFICER
NEWBERRY JAMES ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT
NICHOLSON WILLIAM BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
PAGE DAVID J. ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFTMAN FIRST CLASS
ROBERTSON DAVID ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
SCOTT ALEXANDER BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
STEELE DAVID ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
THOMSON ROBERT CAMERON HIGHLANDERS LANCE SERGEANT
TODD JOHN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT AIR GUNNER
TODD MARGARET P. WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE LEADING WREN FEMALE
TURNER ROBERT S. ROYAL ARTILLERY SERGEANT
WYSE BETSY L. AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE PRIVATE
The distance from Markinch to Glasgow and Paisley is 66 miles
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Old photograph of the Earl Haig statue outside Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, born 19 June 1861, died 29 January 1928, was a British senior officer during the First World War. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the war. The statue was gifted to the city in 1923 by Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji, a wealthy Bombay shipping magnate, who was keen to be seen as being very supportive of the British. The inscription on the statue reads: " Earl Haig: This statue was presented to the City of Edinburgh by Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji of Bombay in admiration of the services rendered to the British Empire by the Field Marshal. " The statue has been relocated inside the castle itself.
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Old photograph of Traigh Rosamol on Luskentyre Beach on Island Of Harris, Scotland. Traigh Rosamol is the northernmost part of the Luskentyre Sands. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of a paddle steamer leaving the pier and castle in Broughty Ferry by Dundee, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of pupils outside George Watson's College in Edinburgh, Scotland. The school was established according to the instructions of George Watson, born 1654, died 1723, who bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to found a school for the provision of post primary boarding education. The school opened as George Watson's Hospital on Whitsunday, 17 May 1741. The initial roll consisted of 11 boys, aged 9 to 10 years; by 1749 there were 30. By 1749 there were 30, while in 1842 pupils numbered 86. In 1869, the original hospital building was sold to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. When the infirmary sought to expand in 1871, the school moved a short distance west to the former Merchant Maiden Hospital building in Archibald Place. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of the Necropolis in Glasgow, Scotland. The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery located on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral. Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. Typically for the period only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone. Approximately 3500 monuments exist here. The planning of the cemetery began formally by the Merchants' House of Glasgow in 1831, and Glasgow Necropolis officially opened in April 1833. Predating the cemetery, the statue of John Knox sitting on a column at the top of the hill, dates from 1825. Alexander Thomson designed a number of its tombs, and John Bryce and David Hamilton designed other architecture for the grounds.
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Old photograph of the Duke Of Wellington statue in Edinburgh, Scotland. This statue, erected in 1852, stands outside Register House. The bronze statue of the Duke mounted on a rearing horse was sculpted by Sir John Steel, born, 1804, died 1891. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of the Prince Albert statue in Edinburgh, Scotland. This statue stands in the centre of Charlotte Square, in front of West Register House. In 1861 a plan was drawn up by Robert Matheson, Clerk of Works for Scotland for a larger, more square garden in Charlotte Square, centred upon a memorial to the recently deceased Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria. The commission for the sculpture was granted in 1865 to Sir John Steell. The main statue features an equestrian statue of the prince, in field marshal's uniform, dwarfing the four figures around the base. It was unveiled by Queen Victoria herself in 1876. The stone plinth was designed by the architect David Bryce and the four corner figures are by David Watson Stevenson. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of a Shetland pony Show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of houses at Inchewan, Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of a cottage at Eabost near Struan on the west coast of the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of Achamore House on the Isle of Gigha, a small island off the West coast of Kintyre, in Argyll, Scotland. The house was built in between 1882 and 1884 by Captain James Scarlett, the laird of the island, to designs by John Honeyman, born 1831, died 1914, around an 18th Century building. It had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1896, by the same architect, but quite possibly with the assistance of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born 1868, died 1928.
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Old photograph of The Rha Falls by Uig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. A double waterfall on the River Rha. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of people, houses and cottages on Shore Road in Lamlash on the Island of Arran, Scotland. Lamlash is located in the southern half of the island, some three miles to the south of Brodick and five miles to the north of Whiting Bay. It is on the eastern side and sits on a bay facing the Holy Isle and the Firth of Clyde. In common with the rest of the island the village's main industry is tourism. In Lamlash the public sector is also an important employer. Fisheries is no longer important; although the Clyde was once the finest fishery in Europe it is now all but gone. There are strictly speaking no fish left in the Clyde for commercial capture and the few fishermen left are reduced to scraping the seabed for scallops and prawns. The village was the training place for No. 11 Scottish Commando during the early years of the Second World War.
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AGNEW RALPH HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1917
ALEXANDER JOHN W. ROYAL NAVY LIEUTENANT R.N.R. 1918
ALEXANDER THOMAS W. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY MAJOR 1918
ANDERSON JOHN U. COLDSTREAM GUARDS PRIVATE 1916
ASTLE JOHN G. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS PRIVATE 1918
BALLANTYNE W.G. ROYAL NAVY ASSISTANT PAY 1918
BAXTER HUGH AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1915
BEGG WILLIAM ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY SERGEANT 1917
BELL JOHN ROYAL SCOTS LANCE CORPORAL 1918
BLACK THOMAS C.A. AUSTRALIANS LIEUTENANT AUSTRALIAN NAVY 1916
BOAG A. FULLARTON ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS LIEUTENANT 1916
BOATH WILLIAM B. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS LANCE CORPORAL 1915
BOYD ADAM ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1917
BOYD NEIL ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS SIGNALLER 1917
BOYLE HUGH ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1917
BRADY JAMES SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
BREMNER DAVID AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1918
BREMNER DONALD ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1918
BRISLAND ALEXANDER KING'S LIVERPOOL REGIMENT LANCE CORPORAL 1917
BROWN WILLIAM J. ROYAL NAVY ENGINEER 1917
BUCHANAN CHARLES ROYAL NAVY STOKER 1918
BUCHANAN DUGALD ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
BUCHANAN GEORGE W.V. CAMERONIANS PRIVATE 1915
BUCHANAN WILLIAM HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CAPTAIN 1917
CALLAN ROBERT ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY DRIVER 1917
CAMERON HAROLD CANADIANS PRIVATE 1915
CAMPBELL ALEXANDER AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1918
CAMPBELL ALEXANDER C. CAMERONIANS SIGNALLER 1917
CAMPBELL CERSHOM ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
CAMPBELL DAVID SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
CAMPBELL GEORGE M. GORDON HIGHLANDERS SERGEANT MILITARY MEDAL 1918
CAMPBELL HUGH SOUTH AFRICANS PRIVATE SOUTH AFRICAN SCOTTISH 1917
CAMPBELL JAMES GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
CARDWELL JAMES CAMERON HIGHLANDERS SERGEANT DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL 1918
CHAPMAN JOHN D. ROYAL NAVY ENGINEER COMMANDER 1915
CHISHOLM ROBERT HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1918
CLARK STEWART LONDON R.B. LIEUTENANT 1918
COLLINS JAMES E. NIGERIA REGIMENT COLOUR SERGEANT 1918
CORRIGAN JAMES ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1915
CRAIG ARCHIBALD KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS PRIVATE 1917
CRAIG WILFRED A. YORKS & LANCS PRIVATE 1917
CUNNINGHAM ARCHIBALD ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
CUNNINGHAM JAMES BEDFORD REGIMENT LIEUTENANT 1916
CUNNINGHAM THOMAS ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
CURRIE JOHN ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY WHEELWRIGHT 1917
DALL JOHN HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CAPTAIN REVEREND 1918
DAVIDSON JOHN J. CANADIANS PRIVATE 1916
DAVIDSON ROBERT CAMERONIANS PRIVATE 1916
DAWSON WILLIAM GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
DICKSON GEORGE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1916
DIXON JAMES H. SOUTH AFRICANS PRIVATE SOUTH AFRICAN INFANTRY 1916
DOCHERTY JAMES ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1918
DOCTOR WILLIAM ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
DONALDSON GEORGE GLASGOW HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
DONALDSON PETER ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1917
DOWNIE JOHN LONDON SCOTTISH LANCE CORPORAL 1917
DRUMMOND JOSEPH ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY DRIVER 1918
DRYSDALE THOMAS J.H. NEW ZEALANDERS LIEUTENANT 1918
DUNCAN ALISTER CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
DUNCAN CHARLES ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY GUNNER 1917
DUNCAN NINIAN AUSTRALIANS CORPORAL A.I.F. 1917
EAGLESHAM DAVID AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1918
EDGAR ALEXANDER S. ROYAL AIR FORCE PRIVATE 1919
ENGLISH GEORGE NORTH LANCS PRIVATE 1917
FERGUSON DUNCAN BLACK WATCH SERGEANT 1916
FERGUSON MALCOLM HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1918
FISHER JOHN C. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS CAPTAIN 1917
FLEMING GAVIN GLASGOW HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY 1916
FRASER JOHN M. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1918
FRIEL JAMES ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1918
GEDDES ALEXANDER CANADIANS PRIVATE 1916
GEMMILL JAMES MERCHANT NAVY STEWARD 1918
GILLIE DUNCAN DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1916
GOOD JOHN SCOTS GUARDS PRIVATE 1918
GRAHAM ROBERT ROYAL NAVY CAPTAIN 1916
GRIEVE GEORGE R. CANADIANS SAPPER 1915
HAIG JOHN DRAGOON GUARDS TROOPER 1919
HAMILTON THOMAS SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS SERGEANT 1916
HARVEY JACK ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE MILITARY MEDAL 1918
HARVEY WILLIAM ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1918
HARVIE ROBERT CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1915
INGRAM ALEXANDER R. LONDON REGIMENT CORPORAL 1917
JEFFREY JAMES NEW ZEALANDERS PRIVATE 1916
JOHNSTON ALEXANDER B. SCOTS GUARDS SIGNALLER 1917
JOHNSTON ARCHIBALD ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1916
KEAN ARCHIBALD WEST RIDING REGIMENT PRIVATE 1917
KEITH JAMES DRAGOON GUARDS CORPORAL 1918
KENNEDY DAVID CANADIANS CORPORAL 1917
KINCHIN PERCY D. GLASGOW HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1916
KINNAIRD JAMES NEW ZEALANDERS PRIVATE 1917
LAING WILLIAM ROYAL ENGINEERS SAPPER 1917
LAMONT DUNCAN ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1917
LAMONT JAMES CAMERONIANS PRIVATE 1916
LAUDER JAMES H. HANTS CORPORAL 1918
LAUDER WILLIAM BLACK WATCH PRIVATE 1917
LAVELLE DUNCAN ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS CORPORAL MILITARY MEDAL 1918
LAVELLE JOHN KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS PRIVATE 1915
LAVELLE PETER HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1918
LAWSON JAMES B. CAMERONIANS CAPTAIN 1918
LEITCH NEIL ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS C.Q.M.S. DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL 1919
LINDSAY HARRY ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
LIVINGSTON DUNCAN C. MERCHANT NAVY BOSUN 1915
LIVINGSTON NEIL MERCHANT NAVY STEWARD 1915
LONIE WILLIAM HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1917
LOWE JAMES WILLIAM ROYAL ENGINEERS
LOWE MANSFIELD ROYAL SCOTS LANCE CORPORAL MILITARY MEDAL 11TH ROYAL SCOTS 1917
LUGTON W. MCA. AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE 1917
LYON ALEXANDER MACHINE GUN CORPS LANCE CORPORAL 1918
MACCRONE JOHN S.B. MERCHANT NAVY ENGINEER 1916
MACDONALD ANGUS GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1916
MACDONALD ROBERT MACHINE GUN CORPS PRIVATE 1918
MACKELLAR JAMES CANADIANS PRIVATE 1916
MACKELLAR WILLIAM K. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1915
MACKENZIE ARCHIBALD INNISKILLING FUSILIERS CORPORAL 1918
MACKENZIE DONALD A. ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS LANCE CORPORAL 1918
MACKENZIE JOHN ROYAL NAVY ENGINEER 1916
MACKENZIE JOHN DRAGOON GUARDS TROOPER 1916
MACKENZIE MURDOCH INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT 1918
MACKIRDY C.D.S. HUSSARS LIEUTENANT 1918
MACKIRDY PETER M. ROYAL NAVY LIEUTENANT COMMANDER 1915
MACLAINE JOHN B. AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1916
MACLAINE SAMUEL A. AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1916
MACLEAN DONALD ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS CORPORAL 1914
MACLENNAN JOHN GORDON HIGHLANDERS MAJOR 1916
MACPHAIL NEIL GORDON HIGHLANDERS SERGEANT 1919
MACPHAIL ROBERT ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
MATTHEWS ROBERT ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
MCALLISTER JAMES SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
MCALOON J. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1915
MCALPINE DANIEL Y. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1917
MCALPINE JAMES M. KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS LIEUTENANT 1916
MCARRAVY JAMES SEA SCOUTS SEA SCOUT 1918
MCARTHUR DANIEL MACHINE GUN CORPS PRIVATE 1916
MCARTHUR JAMES ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1917
MCAULAY WILLIAM YEOMANRY TROOPER 1917
MCBRIDE PETER BLACK WATCH PRIVATE 1915
MCCABE ANDREW BLACK WATCH PRIVATE 1918
MCCOLL ANGUS ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1918
MCCORD JOHN ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS LANCE CORPORAL 1918
MCDONALD HUGH ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS LANCE CORPORAL 1918
MCDONALD MALCOLM SCOTS GREYS LANCE CORPORAL 1918
MCDOUGALL DUNCAN BLACK WATCH PRIVATE 1916
MCFADYEN ARCHIBALD ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE MILITARY MEDAL 1917
MCFARLANE ANDREW ROYAL NAVY SEAMAN 1917
MCGILP ALEXANDER ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1917
MCGLINCHY JAMES MERCHANT NAVY FIREMAN 1917
MCGREGOR DUNCAN ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY DRIVER 1917
MCGREGOR JOHN C. DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY LANCE CORPORAL 1917
MCGUIRE JOHN NEW ZEALANDERS PRIVATE 1917
MCHAFFIE ARTHUR D. INDIAN ARMY LIEUTENANT 1917
MCINNES ALEXANDER MCN. ROYAL NAVY SEAMAN 1917
MCINTOSH ROBERT MACHINE GUN CORPS PRIVATE 1918
MCINTYRE ROBERT SMITH AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1919
MCIVER JAMES M. ROYAL NAVY CHIEF CARPENTER 1918
MCKAY WILLIAM ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY DRIVER 1917
MCKEITH ALEXANDER ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1915
MCKIRDY THOMAS ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1919
MCLACHLAN HUGH SOUTH WALES BORDERERS PRIVATE 1915
MCLACHLAN JOHN ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
MCLACHLAN THOMAS M. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1915
MCLEAN HUGH H. KING'S LIVERPOOL REGIMENT PRIVATE 1918
MCLEAN JOHN CANADIANS PRIVATE 1918
MCLEAN NEIL ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1916
MCLEAN WALTER ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
MCLELLAN ALEXANDER KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS CORPORAL 1917
MCLELLAN JOHN AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1918
MCLEOD JOHN ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1917
MCNAB JAMES HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1916
MCNAIR GEORGE MCF. ROYAL NAVY LIEUTENANT R.N.R. 1919
MCNEIL JOHN GORDON HIGHLANDERS SERGEANT 1917
MCNEIL JOSEPH HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1916
MCTAGGART JOHN ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1918
MCTAGGART WILLIAM ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1915
MCVICAR PETER DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY CORPORAL 1917
MILLER JOHN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
MILLER JOHN MCG. WEST YORKS LIEUTENANT 1916
MILLER ROBERT C. CANADIANS LANCE CORPORAL 1916
MOODIE FREDERICK H. ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
MORRISON DAVID CANADIANS LIEUTENANT 1916
MORRISON JOHN HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1917
MURDOCH JAMES LABOUR CORPS PRIVATE 1918
MURRAY ALEXANDER ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1918
NEIL JOHN MACHINE GUN CORPS LIEUTENANT MILITARY CROSS 1918
NETHERCOTE JAMES D. AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE 1919
NETHERCOTE JOHN D. AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE A.I.F. 1918
NEWALL JAMES GLASGOW HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
NICHOL WILLIAM K. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1916
NUTTALL JAMES CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
OLIPHANT GEORGE S. CANADIANS PRIVATE 1918
PERSTON WILLIAM BLACK WATCH PRIVATE 1918
PULLAR THOMAS HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY LIEUTENANT 1918
RANKIN GORDON D. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
REID WILLIAM SOUTH AFRICANS PRIVATE S.A.I.F. 1917
RICHARDSON WALTER W. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS PRIVATE MILITARY MEDAL 1918
RIGG FREDERICK ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1917
RIPPEY ANDREW ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY BOMBADIER 1917
RITCHIE JOSEPH KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1917
ROBERTSON JOHN ROYAL DRAGOONS TROOPER 1917
ROBINSON JOHN A. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY BOMBADIER 1917
ROLLO WILLIAM CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1915
RUSSELL DONALD ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY DRIVER 1917
SEMPLE GEORGE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS PRIVATE 1918
SHARP MATTHEW LONDON REGIMENT LIEUTENANT MILITARY CROSS 1918
SINCLAIR ARCHIBALD G. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY DRIVER 1917
SINCLAIR GEORGE W. ROYAL ENGINEERS SAPPER 1919
SINCLAIR JAMES SOUTH AFRICANS PRIVATE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE 1916
SINCLAIR JOHN ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1919
SMITH ALEXANDER CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
SMITH ANGUS MACHINE GUN CORPS PRIVATE 1918
SMITH JOHN MCD. CAMERONIANS LIEUTENANT 1916
SPEIRS GRAHAM ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS SERGEANT 1918
SPENCE JAMES ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1917
SQUAIR ROBERT H. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS LIEUTENANT 1917
STARK JOHN P. ROYAL NAVY ENGINEER 1915
STEVENSON FRANK ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY DRIVER 1917
STEWART ALEXANDER O. ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1917
STEWART HENRY J. CAMERONIANS PIPER 1919
SUTHERLAND NOEL SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS LIEUTENANT 1917
SWANSON JAMES GLASGOW HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY 1915
TAGGART JOHN ROYAL NAVY ABLE SEAMAN ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION 1918
TAYLOR ROBERT T. KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS LIEUTENANT 1917
THOMPSON DANIEL J.E. ROYAL SCOTS SIGNALLER 1918
THOMPSON DUGALD ROYAL SCOTS SERGEANT 1916
THOMSON ADRIAN J.B. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS CORPORAL 1915
TOOLE EDWARD CANADIANS CORPORAL 1918
TYRE WILLIAM CAMERONIANS PRIVATE 1915
UCLOW WILLIAM LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS CORPORAL 1917
WARREN WILLIAM D. LONDON REGIMENT LIEUTENANT 1917
WEIR DUGALD MCC. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
WEIR JAMES ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1916
WEIR JOHN ALEXANDER ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1915
WEIR JOHN MCKINLAY ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1915
WEIR ROBERT ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
WEIR WILLIAM R. ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1917
WHYTE ARTHUR ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS DRIVER 1918
WHYTE THOMAS CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
WILSON ALLAN B. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY BOMBADIER MILITARY MEDAL 1918
WOODBURN ANDREW KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS LANCE CORPORAL 1915
YOUNG JOHN ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY DRIVER 1917
World War 2 Roll Of Honour
ALSTON JOHN ROYAL AIR FORCE LEADING AIRCRAFTSMAN
BELL ALEXANDER C. ROYAL AIR FORCE W/SG
BLACK NEIL ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
BROWN ROBERT ROYAL ARTILLERY BOMBADIER
BROWNLIE RONALD C. ROYAL NAVY FLEET AIR ARM
BRUCE ALISTAIR F. ROYAL AIR FORCE PILOT OFFICER
CAMPBELL ALEXANDER ROYAL ENGINEERS LIEUTENANT
CAMPBELL JAMES R. ROYAL AIR FORCE PILOT OFFICER R.A.F.V.R.
CAMPBELL JOHN ROYAL ENGINEERS SAPPER
CHRISTIE ROBERT ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT PILOT
CRAWFORD D. ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
CURRIE ANDREW GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
DAVIDSON GEORGE ROYAL NAVY SEAMAN
DICK A.G. ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT R.A.F.V.R.
DOCHERTY ARCHIBALD AIRBORNE DIVISION LANCE CORPORAL 1ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
DOCHERTY WILLIAM ROYAL AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT
DUFF WILLIAM SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
DUNN GEORGE CLARK PARACHUTE REGIMENT PRIVATE 12TH PARACHUTE BATTALION
GALT JAMES MERCHANT NAVY ABLE SEAMAN
GILCHRIST JOHN ROYAL ARTILLERY SERGEANT
GLEN ROBERT MERCHANT NAVY SECOND OFFICER
GORDON JOHN R.S. ROYAL AIR FORCE PILOT OFFICER
GRANT WILLIAM HUTCHISON ROYAL ARTILLERY SECOND LIEUTENANT
GRAY ALEXANDER ROYAL NAVY JX158263 H.M.S. ROYAL OAK 14TH OCTOBER 1939
HEATON DANIEL MCFIE MERCHANT NAVY STEWARD
INNES WILLIAM ROYAL AIR FORCE OBSERVOR
IRVINE CHARLES ROYAL NAVY LEADING STOKER
JEFFREY JOHN ROYAL ARTILLERY W/SGT
JOHNSTONE HUGH MERCHANT NAVY STEWARD
KENNEDY ANGUS CHESHIRE REGIMENT PRIVATE
KENNEDY JOSEPH O. ROYAL AIR FORCE CORPORAL
KERR DAVID GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
LAMONT JAMES ROYAL MARINES
LAUDER ROBERT MERCHANT NAVY STEWARD
LECKIE ALEXANDER G. ROYAL ARTILLERY LANCE BOMBADIER
LECKIE HECTOR MCK. ROYAL NAVY PETTY OFFICER
LOCHLIN JAMES ROYAL NAVY ABLE SEAMAN
MACDONALD WILLIAM J. ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
MACMILLAN JOHN D. NEW ZEALANDERS GUNNER 1ST N.Z.E.F.
MACRAE JOHN SCOTS GUARDS MAJOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
MCALPINE HUGH ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
MCALPINE JOHN MERCHANT NAVY STEWARD
MCARTHUR JAMES ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
MCCALLUM DUNCAN MERCHANT NAVY
MCCALMAN IAN T.J. MERCHANT NAVY CAPTAIN
MCCRUDEN DOUGLAS HAIG-HAIG ROYAL ARTILLERY SIGNALLER
MCDERMOTT JOHN A. ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
MCGAW ROBERT SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
MCGREGOR ALEXANDER ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
MCILROY JAMES M. ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
MCKEITH PETER MERCHANT NAVY CABIN BOY
MCKINVEN DANIEL MERCHANT NAVY ABLE SEAMAN
MCLACHLAN WILLIAM ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
MCLELLAN JOHN ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER
MCMILLAN EBENEZER HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CORPORAL
MCMILLAN ROBERT A. ROYAL NAVY ABLE SEAMAN ROYAL NAVAL PATROL SERVICE
MCNICHOLL RICHARD ROYAL NAVY LEADING SEAMAN
MORRELL MICHAEL CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
MULLEN THOMAS ROYAL NAVY ABLE SEAMAN
MURRAY WILLIAM F. GREEN HOWARDS LANCE CORPORAL
NEIL HARRY ARTHUR ROYAL AIR FORCE OBSERVOR R.A.F.V.R.
NEIL THOMAS AIRD ROYAL NAVY ORDINARY SEAMAN
PATERSON JOHN S. ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT
PEACOCK IAN S. PRIVATE
PINKERTON JOHN ROYAL ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PRIVATE
PLANCK ANDREW W. ROYAL ARTILLERY SERGEANT
REID ANDREW ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS CORPORAL
REID JAMES MERCHANT NAVY OFFICER
REYNOLDS J.B. ROYAL NAVY LEADING STOKER
ROBERTSON JOHN R. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE
ROSS JAMES S. BLACK WATCH LANCE CORPORAL
SHAW DANIEL ROYAL NAVY ABLE SEAMAN ROYAL NAVAL PATROL SERVICE
SLAVEN MAURICE ROYAL ARTILLERY PRIVATE
SMITH ROBERT MERCHANT NAVY ENGINEER OFFICER
SPEIRS ANGUS MCQUEEN ROYAL NAVY LIEUTENANT R.N.R.
STEWART DAVID A. MERCHANT NAVY CHIEF ENGINEER
STIVEN JOHN G. ROYAL AIR FORCE LEADING AIRCRAFTSMAN R.A.F.V.R.
THOMSON ARTHUR H.C. YORK & LANCASTER REGIMENT LANCE SERGEANT
THORBURN ARCHIBALD
THORBURN DAVID
THORBURN THOMAS
VERDI WILLIAM ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
WEIR ALISTAIR ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
WELSH MICHAEL K.O.R. CORPORAL
WELSH PETER P.C. PRIVATE
WHYTE HUGH MORRISON ROYAL NAVY LEADING STEWARD
WHYTEFORD JAMES C. COMMANDOS
The distance from Rothesay to Glasgow and Paisley is 41 miles
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Old photograph of steam train near Barrhill in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The original Rutherglen station was opened on the Caledonian Railway's line to Glasgow on 1 June 1849. This station was replaced on 31 March 1879 by a new station located to the East of the original station. Services on the Glasgow Central Railway commenced on 1 November 1895. Glasgow Central Railway services were withdrawn as part of the Beeching Axe on 5 October 1964. On 6 May 1974 the West Coast Main Line was opened to electrified services which included Hamilton Circle services through the slow line island platform. This island platform was closed to passengers when the new island platform opened for Argyle Line services using the reopened Glasgow Central Railway formation on 5 November 1979. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old photograph of a steam train in Charing Cross railway station in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Dating from 1886, it was originally part of the Glasgow City and District Railway, the first underground railway in Scotland. The station was built using the cut and cover method, with the original walls being visible on the open air section at the western end of the platforms. Nearby points of interest include Sauchiehall Street and the Mitchell Library, and the station, along with nearby Anderston, a stop on the Argyle Line, serves the city's financial district, making this station popular with commuters.
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Old photograph of a steam train at Falahill near Oxton, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Falahill is in the Moorfoot Hills, in the Parish of Heriot, and close to the border with Midlothian. Nearby are Gilston, the Heriot Water, Soutra Hill, and Torquhan. The hill serves as the origin for the name of Fala, the presidential dog of Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, who was the 32nd President of the United States.
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Old photograph of a steam train approaching the railway viaduct at Lochearnhead, Scotland. The Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway was established with the intention of filling the 15 mile gap between Comrie, Perthshire, where the railway had arrived in 1893, and the Callander and Oban Railway at Balquhidder. The line was authorised as far as St Fillans in 1897, opening on 1st October 1901. The Caledonian Railway took the company over in August 1902, thereafter extending the line to Lochearnhead in 1904. Trains first travelled the through route to Balquhidder on 1st May 1905. The line was never a commercial success and closed on 1st October 1951. Lochearnhead villages is located within the Breadalbane area of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Three clan family names associated with Lochearnhead are McLaren, Stewart and McGregor. The first of these is recorded in 1296, when Lauren of Ardveich had his name entered into the Ragman Roll. The McLaren burial ground at Leckine was last used in 1993. By the time the Stewarts came to Ardvorlich in 1582, the Reformed church, under the guidance of John Knox, had been adopted in Scotland for more than two decades. It was nearly two centuries later that the MacGregors acquired Edinchip, in 1778, building the current Edinchip House in 1830.
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Old photograph of Gollanfield Junction which was a railway station located at Gollanfield to the West of Nairn, Moray, Scotland. Opened, as Fort George Station, by the Inverness and Nairn Railway on 5 November 1855, it was renamed Gollanfield Junction Station on 1 July 1899 and Gollanfield Station in March 1959. The station closed to regular passenger traffic on 3 May 1965, but the main line remains in use.
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Old photograph of a steam train on the Tay Railway Bridge which carries the railway line from Dundee, across the Firth of Tay to Wormit in The Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. The present structure is the second one on this site. On the night of 28 December 1879 at 7.15 pm, the first bridge collapsed after its central spans gave way during high winter gales. A train with six carriages carrying seventy five passengers and crew, crossing at the time of the collapse, plunged into the icy waters of the River Tay. All seventy five were lost. The disaster stunned the whole country and sent shock waves through the Victorian engineering community. The ensuing enquiry revealed that the bridge did not allow for high winds. At the time a gale estimated at force ten or eleven had been blowing down the Tay estuary at right angles to the bridge. The second bridge opened on 20 June 1887 and remains in use.
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Old photograph of a steam train crossing the Forth Railway Bridge from the Kingdom of Fife to South Queensferry, Scotland. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, nine miles West of Edinburgh City Centre. It was opened on 4 March 1890.
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Old photograph of cottages and houses in Burrelton located twelve miles from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is joined onto another village, Woodside. It is two miles from Coupar Angus, the nearest town. Burrelton used to have a train station, part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The now closed station was known as the Woodside and Burrelton railway station.
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Andrew Armstrong. Killed in action in France in 1917.
James Boyle. Killed in action in France in 1917.
Private George Gow Crerar, 7th Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.
Andrew Kerr. Died in France in 1919.
Private Robert McGeorge.
Private John James Neillans, 9th Battalion, Black Watch. Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.
Lance Corporal William Ruddiman, 7th Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.
Private George H. Whitelaw, 15th Battalion, Royal Scots. Killed in action in France on 24th January 1917.
Private Robert Bell Yeomans, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Killed in action at Gallipoli on 12th July 1915.
Corporal William Yeomans, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in Palestine on 7th June 1917.
The distance from Eckford to Glasgow and Paisley is 95 miles.
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Old photograph of Borve Castle on Benbecula, Scotland. Benbecula is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. Borve Castle, also known as Castle Wearie, and Caisteal Bhuirgh in Scottish Gaelic, is a ruined 14th century tower house, located at the South West of Benbecula. It was built for Amie mac Ruari, wife of John of Islay, and dated it to between 1344 and 1363. It was occupied by the Macdonalds of Benbecula until the early 17th century. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of Inverbeg Youth Hostel near Luss, by Loch Lomond, Scotland. The hostel at Inverbeg was constructed on a site donated by Sir Iain Colquhoun of Luss, a strong supporter of the SYHA movement, who officially opened the facility on 22nd August 1931. By 1993, after 60 years use, the structure of the hostel had deteriorated considerably; new water treatment equipment and expensive repairs would be needed; a decision was made to close the hostel, effected on 1st November 1993. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of the birthplace of Flora MacDonald at Milton, South Uist, Scotland. Flora MacDonald, Gaelic: Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill, born 1722, died 4 March 1790, was a Jacobite heroine. She was the daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Milton on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and his wife Marion, the daughter of Angus MacDonald. Her father died when she was a child, and her mother was abducted and married by Hugh MacDonald of Armadale, Isle Of Skye. She was brought up under the care of the chief of her clan, the MacDonalds of Clanranald her father's cousin, and was partly educated in Edinburgh. Throughout her life she was a practising Presbyterian. During the Jacobite Risings, in June 1746, at the age of 24, she was living on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides when Bonnie Prince Charlie took refuge there after the Battle of Culloden. The prince's companion, a Captain Conn O'Neill of The Feeva, County Antrim, sought her assistance to help the prince escape capture. The island was controlled by the Hanoverian government using a local militia, but the MacDonalds were secretly sympathetic with the Jacobite cause. After some hesitation, Flora promised to help the prince escape the island. At a later period she told the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II and commander-in-chief in Scotland, that she acted from charity and would have helped the duke himself were he in defeat and in distress.
The commander of the local militia was her stepfather, Hugh MacDonald. The commander gave her a pass to the mainland for herself, a manservant, an Irish spinning maid, Betty Burke, and a boat's crew of six men. The prince was disguised as Betty Burke. He had left Benbecula on 27 June. After a first repulse at Waternish, Skye, the party landed at Kilbride, Skye, within easy access of Monkstadt, the seat of Sir Alexander MacDonald. The prince was hidden in rocks while Flora MacDonald found help for him in the neighbourhood. It was arranged that he be taken to Portree, Skye and from there taken to Glam on the island of Raasay. The talk of the boatmen brought suspicion on Flora MacDonald, and she was arrested and brought to London, England, for aiding the prince's escape. After a short imprisonment in the Tower of London, she was allowed to live outside of it, under the guard of a jailer. When the Act of Indemnity was passed in 1747 she was released.
On 6 November 1750, at the age of 28, she married Allan MacDonald of Kingsburgh, a captain in the army and the eldest son of Alexander MacDonald VI. The couple lived at Flodigarry on the Isle of Skye where they subsequently were parents to five sons and two daughters. Upon the death of Allan MacDonald's father in 1772, the family moved into the MacDonald family estate at Kingsburgh.
In 1774, she and her husband emigrated to North Carolina. During the American War of Independence Captain MacDonald served the British government in the 84th Regiment of Foot Royal Highland Emigrants. Legend has it that she exhorted the Loyalist force at Cross Creek, North Carolina, present-day Fayetteville, that included her husband, Allan, as it headed off to its eventual defeat at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February, 1776.
He was captured after the battle and was held prisoner for two years until a prisoner exchange occurred in 1777. He was then sent to Fort Edward in Windsor, Nova Scotia where he took command of the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants), Second Battalion. After her husband was taken prisoner, Flora remained in hiding while the American Patriots ravaged her family plantation and took all her possessions. When her husband was released from prison during the fall of 1778, she reunited with him at Fort Edward.
In 1779 Flora returned home to Scotland in a merchant ship. During the passage, the ship was attacked by a privateer. She refused to leave the deck during the attack and was wounded in the arm. Flora resided at the homes of various family members, including Dunvegan, her daughter Anne having married Major General Alexander Macleod. After the war, in 1784, Allan also returned and the family regained possession of the estate in Kingsburgh. Flora MacDonald had a large family of sons, who mostly entered the army or navy, and two daughters. She died at Kingsburgh on the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, in 1790, at the age of 68. She is buried in the Kilmuir Cemetery.
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Old photograph of Teampull Mor on Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. St. Moluag's Church also known as Church Of St Mulvay; Teampull Mor; St Molua's Church; St Malvay's Church; St Olaf's Church; St Mallonvy's Church; Teampull Eorrapaidh is believed to have been built under Norse patronage on an earlier Celtic site. However, the attributed date has ranged from late 12th to early 16th century. It is one of the largest ruins of Churches on the island. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of thatched cottages in Kentangval on the Island of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. These blackhouse cottages were still occupied until 1910. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of the Wishing Well by Millport on the island of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of the War Memorial in Millport on the island of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
World War I Roll Of Honour
Allan Archibald M.
Atkinson Robert
Boyd Alexander
Campbell William M
Clark Duncan
Crawford John
Ferguson Peter
Forrest Ernest L.
Forrest James A.
Forrest William S.J.
Gollan James
Gordon William
Graham James
Graham John
Hood John
Hunter Andrew
Hunter George
Hunter Neil
Lang David
Lewis William J.
Little Neil
Maley Joseph S.
Maycroft Thomas G.
McDavid Alexander
McInnes Donald
McKean William
McLauchlin Daniel
Paton Alexander
Paton John G.
Paton Robert
Pickett Joseph
Rae John
Rae William
Seaton Henry L.
Shearer Alexander G.
Sinclair Archibald K.
Sinclair Frederick B.
Stuart James
Taylor Robert
Turnbull George K.
Waddell James
Weir Duncan
World War 2 Roll Of Honour
Allan Hugh
Elliott William
Frame James M.P.
Graham William
Hamilton Graham
Hunter H. Laird
Hunter Thomas
Kennedy John
MacDonald John M.M.
McConnochie J. Hunter
McDavid Joseph
McDavid Kenneth McK.
McLachlan James
Neil Alexander
Sharp W. Clark
Smith Robert
Taylor Robert
Walker Alexander
Wright Norman
The distance from Millport to Glasgow and Paisley is 37 miles
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Old photograph of Edenhall Hospital in Pinkieburn by Musselburgh, Scotland. The original Edenhall Hospital was built in 1915 as a hostel for limbless ex-servicemen in the mansion house of Edenhall in Kelso, Scottish Borders. There was accommodation for 36 patients and the establishment was entirely run by eight voluntary lady workers. It was soon obvious that the accommodation was insufficient and in 1917 with the help of a £10,000 donation from the Red Cross the committee acquired the house and ground of Pinkieburn near Musselburgh. Originally there were 43 beds but wings were added to the mansion house to increase the accommodation to 100 beds. In 1920 the Ministry of Pensions took over the running of the hospital and it was now opened to convalescent cases as well as the limbless; in the period up to the Second World War it then became the main Ministry of Pensions Hospital in Scotland providing general medical and surgical treatment for war pensioners. During the war the Hospital expanded considerably to provide a total bed strength of 312. By 1953 the number of patients was declining and on the amalgamation of the Ministry of Pensions and the Ministry of National Insurance the opportunity was taken to transfer the responsibility for running the hospital to the National Health Service.
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Old photograph of Fort Augustus from a boat on Loch Ness, Scotland. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising in 1715, General Wade built a fort, taking from 1729 until 1742, which was named after the Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Wade had planned to build a town around the new barracks and call it Wadesburgh. The settlement grew, and eventually took the name of this fort. The fort was captured by the Jacobites in April 1745, just prior to the Battle of Culloden. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of sheep by Loch Earn Scotland. Loch Earn is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland, in the districts of Perthshire and Stirling. The name is thought to mean Loch of Ireland, and it is thought that this might derive from the time when the Gaels were expanding their kingdom of Dál Riata eastwards into Pictland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of Garry Guest House in Killiecrankie, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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Old photograph of people standing outside the Post Office in Methven, Perthshire, Scotland. The Battle of Methven took place in 1306 between Scottish forces led by King Robert the Bruce and the forces from England led by Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and resulted in a resounding win for the English. This was part of the Scottish Wars of Independence. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.
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