Tag: wwi

McGarry branded “disgusting” for Somme cannon fodder comment

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Deadline News Journalist - July 1, 2016

MP Natalie McGarry has been branded “disgusting” after describing the fallen soldiers of the Somme as “working class men treated as dispensable cannon fodder”. Today...

Conan Doyle led campaign to issue Somme troops with body armour

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - June 30, 2016

SIR Arthur Conan Doyle led a campaign to provide British troops at the Somme with body armour, a new exhibition reveals. Doyle is best known...

Scots asked to help identify “lady in the locket” worn by Somme casualty

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Deadline News Journalist - June 1, 2016

SCOTS are being asked to help identify a mystery woman whose photograph was found inside a locket worn by a soldier killed in the...

Fallen WWI heroes to be inducted into Raith Rovers’ hall of fame

Scottish Championship

Iain Collin - May 19, 2016

BY IAIN COLLIN - @CCP_sport TWO players killed in the First World War will be inducted into Raith Rovers' hall of fame - 100 years on...

Honours for piper who played as Scots footballers headed to Somme

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Deadline News Journalist - January 7, 2016

A PIPER who played as doomed Scots footballers headed to their fate at the Battle of the Somme has finally been honoured - 90...

Overlooked artist gets exhibition

Deadline News Journalist - July 13, 2010

By Cara Sulieman AN OVERLOOKED Scottish artist is getting a rare retrospective of his work starting tomorrow. John Maclachlan Milne was a contemporary of the Scottish...