On returning to Scotland and Inveraray in particular, I was again accommodated on the Southland with the...
The wait to get in the Land Army was six months, when you are seventeen years old there is no way you...
One further emergency exit door gave access to an enclosed cast iron spiral staircase to street level via a...
The orphanage outgrew the house and a vast new one was built at the other end of the village then Tower...
In 1938 at the age of eleven, I was admitted to John Watson's School, a small non-fee-paying...
A team consisted of a Director in our case a Dutchman, a Doctor ours was Dr. Michele Hardi a Frenchman...
I was offered and took a position with the Ministry of Food in Edinburgh in the Inspectorate One of my...
Our daily lives were not affected directly with war time activities although with several air force...
Our office in Inverness where we four clerks worked was in the Ardross Hotel, which was on the banks of the...
Christmas was fantastic for we all went from one house to another and then end up at the Farmer's...
Before being evacuated, I recall the first air-raid on the Firth of Forth...German bombers trying to bomb...
A friend who had been a boarder at Bablake School, Coventry at the same time as myself was happy to take me...
Pat & Willie went for a night to Edinburgh to visit the theatre but, though they sat through the show...
However in the Edinburgh and Glasgow regions of Scotland armed conflict from the air commenced on Monday...
I joined the Army in January 1942, by going to Redford Barracks in Edinburgh, the home of the Signal...
This recognition is not a matter of being wise after the event: wartime life was such that one was...
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