Royal Navy commemorate the Fallen
Royal Navy sailors and submariners gathered at Hermitage park, Helensburgh, on Sunday to join the nation in the act of remembrance
Royal Navy sailors and submariners gathered at Hermitage park, Helensburgh, on Sunday to join the nation in the act of remembrance
One way or another, pandemic or not, the Campbeldown community remembered them.
Next month pupils from both schools will be re-creating a scene from November 11 1919 when all the children at Easdale School were taken into the upper room to have the King’s message read and explained to them.
Islanders celebrated the Battle’s Over event with an ’emotional ceremony’ at the harbour building in Tobermory on Saturday night.
A two-tonne memorial stone was lowered into Oban’s Garden of Remembrance, before the many Armistice Day centenary services on Sunday.
As the centenary of the Armistice approaches, a letter from an Argyll labour camp tells the forgotten story of Scotland’s pacifist movement.
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