Battalion Argyll News Today

Lieutenant-Colonel Mad Mitch Mitchell (pictured centre), a Second World War veteran and hero of campaigns in Korea, Borneo and Cyprus, was called back in to action in July 1967.

2012: Brothers from Campbeltown have been presented with the Royal British Legion Scotland (RBLS) recruitment medal. Twins Billy and Tommy Morran were presented with the medals at the July meeting of the RBLS Campbeltown branch by chairman George Rahman.

The Campbells are legends in their own land, and around the world, too

The Campbells are legends in their own land, and around the world, too

The deep purple ribbon is as brightly coloured today as it was when it was carefully threaded through the delicate lattice pattern snipped into a notebook page more than a century ago. Taking care to keep it spotlessly clean, Private George Beveridge of A Company, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, sat down in the battle-scarred fields of France to write to his beloved Gertie. It was July 2, 1916 – the second day of the Battle of the Somme – and he had already served two...