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“God’s anger touched her and she slept”
Mesen – On Flanders Fields
Mary Queen of Scots
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The Battle of Loos
Three Cemeteries on the Loos Battlefields Loos - St Mary's Advanced Dressing Station - John Kipling St Mary's Advanced Dressing Station - Loos St...
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Operation Overlord
The liberation of Europe Britain declared war on Nazi Germany on 3rd September 1939, and by 6th June 1944, the world had been at war for nearly five...
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The Wigtown Martyrs
Tragic Tales of Covenanter Women by Evelyn McKechnie Wigtown - Martyrs Stake Wooden raised walkway out to the mudflats and place of execution The...
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Scottish Nurses in the Great War
THE TRAGEDY OF ST OMER 'Sad' Nurses Row at Longuenesse, St Omer - Northern Franceby Evelyn McKechnie Four Scottish nurses were killed by enemy...
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Covenanter Battles – Scotland
The Battle of Philiphaugh 1645 This must be one of the spookiest, eeriest places I have visited in Scotland. Located deep in the Philiphaugh Estate,...
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Diksmuide – Vladslo German Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
“The soldiers’ graves are the greatest preachers of peace.” (Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate). This cemetery was first laid out by...
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The Battle of Bothwell Bridge – 1679
Battle of Bothwell Bridge Memorial This obelisk commemorates the Covenanters that fell at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge which took place on 22nd...
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City of the Dead
Lambhill Cemetery, Western Necropolis and St Kentigerns Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland by Evelyn McKechnie There are three vast cemeteries north of...
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Coming home for eternal rest
The graves of over 1000 soldiers from 2 World WarsThe story of 3 VC recipients from WW1, Zulu Wars and the Indian Mutiny by Evelyn McKechnie In the...
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The Battle of Harlaw 1411 – Scotland
by Evelyn McKechnie This impressive granite hexagonal 40 feet monument was erected in 1911 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Battle of...
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The Glasgow Pals Regiments on the Somme
by Evelyn McKechnie In the tiny hamlet of Authuille, on the old front line of the Somme, is a church. On the front door of this church is a memorial...
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‘The Hidden Somme’
by Evelyn McKechnie The Somme today is a place of great beauty and tranquility and a million miles removed from the horrors of the Great War 1914 –...
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Lt Stuart Boyd, Painter – Soldier
The story of a soldier painter – Lt Stuart Boyd by Evelyn McKechnie Lt Stuart Boyd was the only son of Alexander Stuart Boyd and Mary Stuart Boyd...
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Azeville Battery – Normandy Atlantic Wall
by Evelyn McKechnie Built by the German Todt organisation between 1941 and 1944, close to Sainte-Mère-Eglise, the Azeville Battery was a vital part...
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It was the war to end all wars, it was going to be over by Christmas 1914
- sadly neither statement was to be true by Evelyn McKechnie 1914 It was the war to end all wars and it was going to be over by Christmas 1914 -...
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McGregor Despite Them!
Rob Roy McGregor and the Persecuted Clan by Evelyn McKechnie Scotland has a blood-soaked and turbulent history that once pitted clan against clan,...
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Remembering the War Dead
“The soldiers’ graves are the greatest preachers of peace.” (Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate). by Evelyn McKechnie I have guided...
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A Family of Artists
by Evelyn McKechnie This is the story of a Glasgow family of three artists, father, mother and of their only son who died in the Great War. This...
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Scotland’s WW1 Private Ryan
by Evelyn McKechnie Commonwealth Graves Cemetery An Ayrshire Mill Town Kilbirnie is a small town in the Garnock Valley, North Ayrshire, with a...
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SHRAPNEL CHARLIE
Debris of death helped build a Great War monument to Scottish soldiers by Evelyn McKechnie Lead shrapnel which once claimed the lives of...
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WW2 French Resistance on the Somme
by Evelyn McKechnie During the Second World War, the skies above the Somme in France were filled with Allied bombers heading into the heart of...
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The WW1 Grave Hunters
Two brothers identify four missing soldiers of the Great War'No Longer Missing' by Evelyn McKechnie I have come across some extraordinary people in...
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AVRIL WILLIAMS – Historian extraordinaire
“People search all their lives to find the contentment I now feel, I am doing this for them.' Avril Williams By Evelyn McKechnie In October 2003, I...
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All the brave ‘little women’
by Evelyn McKechnie International Women's Day Throughout history, some women's bravery and courage have been well recorded - Florence Nightingale,...
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The Great War – Generation Lost
The story of a soldier painter - Lt Stuart Boyd by Evelyn McKechnie Lt Stuart Boyd was the only son of Alexander Stuart Boyd and Mary Stuart Boyd...
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The 1914 Christmas Truce
Ploegsteert Wood by Evelyn McKechnie The war that was to be 'over for Christmas', was not over by December 1914. The soldiers who joined up...
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Glasgow Housewife’s three-year campaign to honour the Great War soldiers of Lyon Street
'The soldiers are not gone if they are remembered' by Evelyn McKechnie Back in 2007, I was extremely fortunate to meet Glasgow housewife and mother...
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The sacrifice of Glasgow’s volunteers in World War One
'Lest We Forget' by Evelyn McKechnie When the First World War broke out in 1914, Glasgow volunteers queued up in their thousands to join, and those...
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AUCHONVILLERS ON THE SOMME
Frontline History By Evelyn McKechnie On the 1st July 2008, on the anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, a new museum was...
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The unique history of the Corps of Commissionaires
The legacy of the oldest security firm in the world by Evelyn McKechnie The Corps of Commissionaire has a unique place in British history concerning...
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Arras – The Forgotten Battlefields of the Artois
by Evelyn McKechnie This area of France is sometimes known as the ‘forgotten battlefields’ because Flanders and the Somme get more battlefield...
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The Clydebank Blitz
by Evelyn McKechnie At 11.15 BST on 3rd September 1939, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced that the British deadline for the...
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The Animals’ War, 1914 – 1918
‘They had no choice’ by Evelyn McKechnie The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated –...
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Archaeologists looking for war poet Wilfred Owens’s trench dugout on the Somme found the remains of three fallen soldiers.
By Evelyn McKechnie Television crew and archaeologists at Serre on the Somme in October 2003 So what happens to the missing when they are found, and...
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The tragedy of the HMY ‘Iolaire’ 1.1.1919
'Whisper its name' by Evelyn McKechnie If you visit any of the small cemeteries scattered along the landscape Harris and Lewis, there is a date on...
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“If they remember the bagpiper, they won’t forget those whose served and fell on the beaches”
PIPERS IN BATTLE Bill Millin - Normandy by Evelyn McKechnie On the 8th June 2013, a piper memorial was unveiled on Sword Beach in Normandy. It is in...
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History Timeline of the Parkhead Forge, Glasgow
'Transport is the Thing' - Sir William Beardmore By Evelyn McKechnie I grew up in Parkhead, and the Forge was the main employer for the East End of...
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A GREAT WAR SCOTTISH HERO IS HONOURED IN FRANCE
by Evelyn McKechnie ‘I put my Mammy’s flowers down for her wee brother. That was always her wish’.Theresa McKend, niece of Victoria Cross recipient...
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Scotland’s WW1 Private Ryan
by Evelyn McKechnie Commonwealth Graves Cemetery An Ayrshire Mill Town Kilbirnie is a small town in the Garnock Valley, North Ayrshire, with a...
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POETS IN ARMS
by Evelyn McKechnie The Great War began in 1914, and for many who served in the war, putting pen to paper about their experiences seemed a way out...
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Mutiny on the Chemin des Dames 1917
by Evelyn McKechnie Road marker on the Chemin des Dames On 17th April 2017, French President Francois Hollande became the first French leader to...
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Normandy D-Day 1944
by Evelyn McKechnie The greatest sea-borne landing exercise in the world and the Liberation of France. “I came back to see you all” At my uncle's...
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ANZAC DAY – Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery
by Evelyn McKechnie One of the locations in the Great War Battlefields of the Western Front app is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's...