Archive for the ‘WWII’ Category
Friday, January 1st, 2010
Stornoway Gazette, 21 Jan 1944
The pressmen get their snaps - Lewisfolk provide a little colour
American press photographers visited the vicinity of St Pauls on Hogmanay to pick up a few colourful pictures of New Year celebrations in London.
A group of Lewisfolk gave them their best 'shots' of the evening when ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Just now I am up in a cold land
And a message has arrived for us to go to sea,
That the ships are now assembled and when night comes
We have to move off with them.
-Murdanie Macritchie
This song was written by Petty Officer Murdanie Macritchie, Brenish, whilst serving during the Second War ...
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Stornoway Gazette, 6 October 1939
West Uig, along with other parts of the Island, has contributed its quota to the fighting forces, both army and navy. Being on the Atlantic Seaboard, much interest is taken in all surface craft observed, and much speculation as to their intentions is rife. More interest, ...
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
For next year, Uig Museum will be mounting a display of wedding and christening objects, and we're very keen to collect any items, stories, photographs and archives connected with these events in Uig over the years. Naturally we don't need to take ownership of them, unless you'd like to ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
The clocks went forward this morning. In case you missed them previously, we have two short pieces here on the first use of BST in Uig in 1917, and from a 1965 article looking back to the continuing disagreements over it in 1925 and during WW2.
Readers in Lewis and Harris, ...
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
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William Matheson (Uilleam Dearg) was born to 2 Geshader in 1877, the youngest son of William Ruadh. As a young man he went off, presumably to join the Seaforths, though his family heard nothing of him until he turned up in a picture of a company in Egypt or the ...
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