Old Photograph Shuna Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Shuna Castle on the Island of Shuna, one of the Slate Islands lying east of Luing, on the west coast of Scotland. In 1815, James Yates, a Glasgow native living in Woodville in Devon, England, bought the island from Colonel McDonald of Lynedale. In 1829 Yates bequeathed the island in trust to the magistrates and council of Glasgow, with profits from the estate divide two fifths to the city, two fifths to Glasgow University and one fifth to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Shuna Castle was built in 1911 by adventurer and philanthropist George Alexander MacLean Buckleyas. It fell into disrepair in the 1980s when the cost of maintenance become too great.



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Old Photograph Cameron Highlanders Fort William Scotland

Old photograph of a Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders sports day by Fort William, Scotland. The regiment was raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot, Cameronian Volunteers, on 17 August 1793 at Fort William from among the members of the Clan Cameron by Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht. During the First World War The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as Army Troops for the 1st Division in August 1914 for service on the Western Front. The 2nd Battalion, which had been in India, landed at Le Havre as part of the 81st Brigade in the 27th Division in December 1914 for service on the Western Front and then moved to Salonika in December 1915. The 3rd Battalion was posted to Birr in Ireland in November 1917, The 5th Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 26th Brigade in the 9th Scottish Division in May 1915 for service on the Western Front. The 6th Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 45th Brigade in the 15th Division in July 1915 also for service on the Western Front. The 7th Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 44th Brigade in the 15th Division in July 1915 also for service on the Western Front. The Scottish Gaelic poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna served with the 7th Battalion at this time.



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Old Photograph Royal Scots Regiment Selkirk Scotland

Old photograph of First World War soldiers from the Royal Scots Regiment marching through Selkirk, Borders, Scotland. The Royal Scots, once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of King Charles I of Scotland. The regiment existed continuously until 2006, when it amalgamated with the King's Own Scottish Borderers to become the Royal Scots Borderers, which merged with the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, the Black Watch, the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cemetery Newburgh Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the cemetery in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. Newburgh graveyard is located on the eastern edge of town, on the Newburgh to Cupar road. The cemetery is below Clatchard Hill where the fort of Clatchard Craig was located on the hill of the same name. A human presence on the hill site has been identified from the neolithic period onward and the fort itself was occupied from the sixth century AD until at least the eighth century.



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Old Photograph Grammar School Dunoon Scotland

Old photograph of the Grammar School in Dunoon, Cowal Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland. The School was founded in 1641.

Notable former pupils include;

Sylvester McCoy, born Percy James Patrick Kent Smith, born on 20 August 1943 in Dunoon, who is a Scottish actor, best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 as well as for his role as the wizard Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Hobbit.

The Reverend Dr. Donald Currie Caskie, born on 22 May 1902, the son of a crofter, in Bowmore on Islay. He was educated at Bowmore School and then Dunoon Grammar School before studying arts and divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He was a minister in the Church of Scotland, 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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