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IN this series on Scotland’s famous regiments we have now reached one of the most renowned regiments in Scottish military history, the Argyll and…
Despite overwhelming terror, the soldiers aboard HMS Birkenhead stood firm to let the "women and children" evacuate first.
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 years away from his sweetheart. “Accept my best love and heaps of kisses,” he wrote, attachin...