Old photograph of a Navy wedding in Dundee, Scotland. Dundee did not have a major naval role in the Great War, though it did make a number of significant, if indirect, contributions and many local men did join the navy. The Dundee Company of Clyde Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was formed in 1904 with HMS Dundee as its base. In 1914, 7 officers and 150 men from Dundee joined the Hood Battalion in the 2nd Brigade of the Royal Naval Division and went to Belgium where they became embroiled in the defence of Antwerp. The Royal Naval Division subsequently fought at Gallipoli before being transferred to the British Army as the 63rd Royal Naval Division in 1916.
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