Down Memory Lane, January 15 2021
More from Gunner Neil MacLean’s prisoner of war diary.
Tag: second world war
News
Lost sailor’s nephews mark 80 years since SS Aska sinking
‘The whole Gigha community was great and gave us unreserved support in our task.’
Nostalgia
Kintyre residents remember VE Day 75 years on…
‘When the war was over, it was thought of as a smashing night but it wasn’t really for everybody. There were happy times, but at other times it was quite sad.’
Leisure
DOWN MEMORY LANE, Bulleted Bellochantuy is front page news
The other reported that many children, including evacuees from Glasgow, were playing on the beach at the time.