Refugees, internment, training and protest.
IV40 8NS - The story of the mine on Raasay and the prisoners who worked there.
Appealing against military call ups
Home to the Mansfield MP who championed the cause to stop ‘boy soldiers’ enlisting
When requisitioned the staff had a few weeks to relocate patients or send them home
Jane Anderson describes the impact of the war on the family in Blair Castle.
EH1 2NG - Mark Stephen reveals the war time significance of the famous One O’Clock Gun.
Most soldiers killed in WW1 were buried where they fell. However some bodies came home.
G1 1LG - How the Glasgow Police Force coped with war duties and the youth crime.
Life for a German prisoner of war in Britain may not have been as expected
TD6 9DP - The story of Douglas Haig and the way his reputation has fluctuated.
The Castle that became a WW1 hospital and trench-warfare training ground
Local crab fishermen helped pull men from the water after allied convoys were torpedoed
How soldiers viewed religion and how Church chaplains were out of touch with the men.
HS2 9PN- Records tell the story of those who applied for exemption from military service.
Abolishing tuition fees and shortens military training to produce enough troops
Following air raids there were blackouts, so road markings were needed in the dark
Nottingham’s first and only air raid of WW1
An unheard interview with a woman who recalls her childhood during the war
The story of the training of the 52nd Lowland Division prior to heading to Gallipoli.
G4 0QZ - The Moderator of the Church of Scotland reflects on a year of commemoration.
A perfectly legal way to get out of going back to fight: become a recruiting sergeant.
The regiment formed by estate workers from Duncombe Park and local farmers
Dyffryn Aled hall, became a POW camp that many German officers tried to escape.
Royal Irish Fusiliers, from Cavan and Monaghan, were based in Carrickfergus during WW1.