by Evelyn | Jan 26, 2021 | Scotland, The Great War
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 from Glasgow. The trio were talented artists and writers, and when Stuart succumbed to his wounds on Saturday 7th...
by Evelyn | Dec 20, 2020 | The Great War
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 believing that, were now sitting in trenches hundreds of miles from home looking up into a bleak and cold sky. In...
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 | Sep 23, 2020 | The Great War
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 inaugurated at Auchonvillers in France and it just keeps getting better and better. This museum is dedicated not only to the...
by Evelyn | Aug 20, 2020 | 2nd World War, The Great War
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 the employment of injured soldiers. It achieved long term goals and invoked wider debate regarding the employment of...
