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3 May 1917 Lieutenant Robert Grierson Combe VC
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Robert was the youngest of six children of Presbyterian parents James and Elizabeth Combe. On 24 April 1906, Robert emigrated to Canada via Liverpool, destination Montreal. He arrived 1 May. A pharmacist from Moosomin, Saskatchewan, on 1st April 1915 he enlisted at Sewell Camp into the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He had previously served in...
Ep. 145 – Stories from the Bo’ness War Memorial – Alan Gow & Robert Jardine
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Alan Gow and Robert Jardine about their book (written with Richard Hannah) on the lives and war service of the men who commemorated on the Bo’ness War Memorial, West Lothian. Your browser does not support the audio element.
The First World War story of Captain A.D. Blair, Harley Couper's great-grandfather.
At the back of my parents' wardrobe sat a pirate's chest. It would grumble and sigh camphor when opened, hinting at distant lands and adventures. The pirate was Captain A.D. Blair, my great-grandfather. His adventures, my mother hinted, included smuggling guns in the Middle East, sailing the seas with a pet lion aboard, and earning a medal from...
The Highland Soldier in the Great War - a talk by Tom Greenshields
Tom Greenshields studied at Oxford and Durham Universities. He worked throughout his career in the Ministry of Defence - plus spent eight years in the Territorial Army, achieving the rank of Captain. For many years, Tom ran the living history group, "The Gordon Highlanders 1914-1918". His research into the Highland soldier during the First World...
Russia and the First World War - a talk by Professor Evan Mawdsley
Delegates from both sides around the table during the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk in December 1917.Image: IWM (Q 86727) Our final branch meeting of 2024 will consider why the Eastern Front is so often a neglected (but important) subject. It will also look at the links between the World War, the 1917 Revolution, and the Russian Civil Wa...
Summoned by Bells: Duke Niall and the Inveraray Bell Tower
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Nial Diarmid Campbell, (1872-1949) the 10th Duke of Argyll and MacCalein Mor was, to say the least eccentric, and became known as “Scotland’s Most Picturesque Duke”. An antiquarian totally immersed in his Clan history, he had other many interests, including horticulture and stamp collecting, but mainly the Celtic church, doctrine and the archite...