Old Travel Blog Photograph Main Street Bowmore Islay Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses and people on Main Street in Bowmore, Islay, Scotland. The Reverend Dr. Donald Currie Caskie, the son of a crofter, was born in Bowmore on Islay in 1902. He was educated at Bowmore School and then Dunoon Grammar School before studying arts and divinity at the University of Edinburgh. His first charge was at Gretna, before becoming the minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris in 1938. He is best known for his exploits in France during World War II, during which he helped an estimated 2,000 Allied sailors, soldiers and airmen to escape from occupied France, mainly through Spain.



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