Tag: World War I
Books – Living with Shadows: Making the Pieces Fit
May 1915: Gallipoli. The war that would be ‘over by Christmas (1914)’ has now been raging for 10 months. An Allied force of 70,000 men has been sent to attack the Ottoman Empire. British,...
Story of the Leith man who signed up 100 years ago today
Record reveals the story of a Scot who signed up on Boxing Day in the last century.
A hundred years ago today a young man from Leith registered to join the British Army, pledging to...
