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25 February 1915: Lieut. Colin Edward Cumming
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Edward was born in Stafford in March 1880. His parents were Robert (a bank manager) and Margaret (née Duff). He was one of six children. He was educated at Royal High School, Edinburgh and Edinburgh University. He was an active member of the OTC and commissioned in the RFA Reserve 16 Sept 1909. Before the war, he took an engineering cadetship...
21 March 1915 : 2nd Lieut. Lewis Neil Griffitt Ramsay
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Lewis Neil Griffitt Ramsay was born 2 February 1890 in Aberdeen His parents were Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, Professor of Classical Archaeology in Oxford and Lady Ramsay, Agnes Dick (née Marshall). Older siblings were Agnes, Andrew, Mary and Helena. The family lived at 41 Braid Avenue, Edinburgh. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, E...
22 March 1918 : Acting Corporal Peter Aitken
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Peter Aitken was born 1 December 1890 in Edinburgh, the third son of Peter Aitken and Jessie (née Russell) of Bellencrieth Nursery, Bathgate. Peter was one of nine children, of whom one (George) died in childhood, aged 2yrs.. Peter was employed at the Bathgate Post Office and enlisted in March 1916. In 1917, two brothers were killed in action....
The Quintinshill Rail Disaster 22 May 1915 - with David Carter.
David will examine the events surrounding the notorious multi-train rail crash at Quintinshill Junction, near Gretna, when a southbound troop train carrying territorials of the Leith based 1/7th Royal Scots slammed into a local service. With over 220 dead, and a similar number injured, it remains the worst crash in the history of the railways in...