Welcome to the Scotland (North) branch of The Western Front Association.
See our website for our annual programme of events, reports and research. Scotland (North) Branch.
We meet at the Elgin Library (In The Gallery) on Saturday afternoons at 1.30pm
Upcoming Branch Events
Prisoners of War in the Great War
In this talk Jim Mackay will examine the fate of prisoners of war from all sides in the Great War, their terms of imprisonment, their working and living conditions and many other aspects of life 'inside the wire'.
Event DetailsTo be Handled With Care: The Loss of HMS Natal
In this talk Scot Lindgren will be looking at the sinking of HMS Natal in the Cromarty Firth on the afternoon of 30 December 1915, which claimed about 400 lives, including some naval nurses and civilian women and children visiting the ship while at anchor off Invergordon. An enquiry put the sinking down to a spontaneous cordite explosion, but sever…
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