Old Photograph Wedding Dundee Scotland

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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Old Photograph Mother And Daughter Dulnain Bridge Village Scotland

Old photograph of a mother with her daughter outside a shop in Dulnain Bridge village located three miles South West of Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. This Scottish village lies near to the A95, in the Cairngorms National park. The village comprises two communities. Dulnain Bridge itself is centred to the north of the bridge over River Dulnain, and this particular part of the village lies in Morayshire. The crofting community of Skye-of-Curr stretches for a mile to the south, and this is in Inverness-shire.



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Old Photograph Kilspindie Golf Club Aberlady Scotland

Old photograph of golfers from Fanlingerers at Kilspindie Golf Club by Aberlady, East Lothian, Scotland. The Fanlingerers was a charitable golf association of members and friends of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club founded in St. Andrews in 1951 by the late Bob Young and his colleague Alex Mackenzie for the purpose of raising funds for the Scottish War Blinded through golf and good fellowship and in memory of happy days in Hong Kong and Fanling. Bob was Captain of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in 1940 and his successor in 1941 was Alex who was subsequently blinded in the defence of Hong Kong while leading a patrol of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots against a Japanese occupied police post. He was an all round sportsman and after rehabilitation at the Scottish National Institution for War Blinded at Lindburn served for twenty years as Highlands Appeals Officer for that institution. He was elected first Taipan of the Fanlingerers in 1952 and it was a tribute to him and to those who suffered a similar affliction that the association was founded.



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Tour Scotland Video The Saltire Flag Flying St Andrew's Day Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an illuminated Saltire Flag flying on the wall of a church on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
The Flag of Scotland, called The Saltire or Saint Andrew's Cross, is a blue field with a white saltire. According to tradition, it represents Saint Andrew, who is supposed to have been crucified on a cross of that form, called a crux decussata, at Patras. The flag is in the form of a diagonal cross, like the shape of the letter X in Roman type. Saltires are also seen in several other flags, including the flags of Grenada, Jamaica, Alabama, Florida, Jersey, Logroño, Vitoria, Amsterdam, Breda, Katwijk, Potchefstroom and Valdivia, as well as the former Indian princely states of Khairpur, Rajkot and Jaora. The design is also part of the Confederate Battle Flag and Naval Jack used during the American Civil War. Arthur L. Rogers, designer of the final version of the Confederate National flag, claimed that it was based off the saltire of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Scots Celebrating St Andrew’s Day Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Scots celebrating St Andrew’s Day on a very cold day in the city centre on King Edward Street on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Saint Andrew is Scotland's patron saint. In Scotland, and many countries with Scottish connections, Saint Andrew's Day is marked with a celebration of Scottish culture with traditional Scottish food, music and dance. The celebration of Saint Andrew as a national festival is thought to originate from the reign of King Malcolm III. Saint Andrew's Day is the feast day of Saint Andrew who is represented in the New Testament to be the disciple who introduced his brother, the Apostle Peter, to Jesus as the Messiah. He is the patron saint of Cyprus, Scotland, Greece, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, San Andres Island, Colombia, Saint Andrew, Barbados, and Tenerife. In Germany, the feast day is celebrated as Andreasnacht, in Austria with the custom of Andreasgebet, and in Poland as Andrzejki, in Russia as Андреева ночь.

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