Author Archive: Nadine Lee
Nadine has recently arrived in Scotland from New Zealand, and currently works at scotclans.com
Project Honours Scotland’s First World War Dead
Prince Charles has chosen a 20-year-old former royal servant from Deeside who never returned from the Western Front to be a focal point for a major project honouring Scotland’s First World War dead. The prince selected Private Robert Duguid, who had been a labourer at Birkhall on the Royals’ Balmoral Estate, as someone who was [...]
Last Wishes Of Fallen WWI Scots Soldiers to be Published Online
The wills of 26,000 Scottish soldiers who died in the First World War are to be made available online for the first time as part of centenary commemorations marking the outbreak of the conflict. The last wishes of fallen Scottish soldiers will be made available online by the National Records of Scotland. Among the 26,000 [...]
Kiev Bagpiper Inspired by Scots Soldiers
As violence and unrest continues to engulf Kiev, footage emerged last week of a brave bagpiper playing ‘Bonnie Galloway’ as bullets hurtled past. Known simply as Eugene, the Ukrainian piper gave a rendition of the famous Scots tune despite having being shot in the ear with a rubber bullet. The self taught piper told the [...]
Clan Munro Boosts Highlanders Museum Revamp
Clan Munro has helped to bring a Highland military museum fundraising campaign one step closer to victory. Hector Munro of Foulis, Chief of Clan Munro, has donated £15,000 on behalf of the clan and wider family to the Highlander’s Museum fundraising appeal. The Highlanders are the descendents of Scottish Regiments originally raised from the clans [...]
Iraq War – A Serving Scottish Soldier’s View
As part of BBC Scotland’s series remembering the Iraq War which began 10 years ago, Regimental Sergeant Major Scott Shaw of the Black Watch shares his experience. Click here to watch the video – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21849016
Black Watch Statue set for Belgium
A statue of a Black Watch soldier is to be unveiled in Belgium in 2014, commemorating more than 8,000 soldiers and officers of the regiment who lost their lives in the First World War. 20,000 men from the regiment were injured during the war. Set to be placed in an area known as Black Watch [...]
Black Watch Returns to Glasgow
The award-winning play Black Watch is returning to Glasgow from Wednesday 28th March until Saturday 13th April. Written by Gregory Burke and presented by The National Theatre of Scotland, the play tells the story of Black Watch soldiers serving in Operation TELIC in Iraq in 2004. Sold out in Glasgow on three previous occasions, the [...]
Excavation of Edinburgh’s WWI Trenches Begins
At almost 100 years old, excavation and examination work has begun on Dreghorn Barrack’s WWI trench training system by world renowned archeologists. Originally dug by the 16th Battalion The Royal Scots before they served in France, the trenches provided the only experience Scots soldiers had of trench warfare before arriving on the Western Front. Experts [...]
Royal Scots WWI Mystery
A researcher is appealing for help to identify a picture of an unknown Royal Scots soldier in time for the WWI centenary. Alistair McEwan, creator of the online archive Edinburgh’s War, found the solitary picture in a book of autographs collected by a teenager at the YMCA ‘American Hut’ site in Edinburgh’s Saint Andrew’s Square [...]
Scotland’s Longest Serving Soldier Dies
Harry Morgan, Scotland’s longest-serving World War Two veteran has died aged 87. With a military career spanning 48 years, Harry served as a Black Watch quartermaster sergeant and was part of the legendary 51st Highland Division. In 1942 at the age of 17 years and two days, Harry enlisted in The Black Watch and was [...]
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