by Evelyn | Oct 30, 2020 | Glasgow, Scotland, The Great War
‘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 working on the Glasgow trams were eagerly first in line. In the first 14 months of the war, over...
by Evelyn | Aug 10, 2020 | The Great War
by Evelyn McKechnie This area of France is sometimes known as the ‘forgotten battlefields’ because Flanders and the Somme get more battlefield visitors, yet it is here on the Arras front that has over 150 British cemeteries, which bear testament to the huge losses. It...
by Evelyn | Jul 14, 2020 | The Great War
‘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 – Mohandas Gandhi Peronne, a lovely town on the Somme in France, with ancient ramparts and lagoon, played host to an...
by Evelyn | Jun 16, 2020 | The Great War
‘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 many Commonwealth Grave headstones – 1st January 1919. That is how I found out about the sinking of the...
by Evelyn | Apr 25, 2020 | The Great War
by Evelyn McKechnie One of the locations in the Great War Battlefields of the Western Front app is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery. It has a commanding vista with wonderful views over the French countryside. Flying high in...
