Biographical information about Bill Martin (1916-1942), a wireless operator/gunner in RAF 224 Squadron who was briefly posted to Tiree in 1942. Bill and all but one of his fellow crew members lost their lives when their plane collided with a barrage balloon in fog on the edge of Dartmoor in October 1942. A memorial was unveiled there by Bill’s widow in 2018.
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Letter dated 1/10/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to the solicitors of the Argyll Estates.
Letter dated 1/10/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to Messrs Campbell & Martin, W.S., Edinburgh, regarding a claim for compensation by a Mrs MacLean.
Receipt dated 31/10/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to Messrs Campbell & Martin, W.S., Edinburgh.
Receipt dated 31/10/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to Messrs Campbell & Martin, W.S., Edinburgh, in full payment of compensation of £25 for damage to land occupied by Mrs MacLean of Scarinish.
Letter dated 20/6/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to Messrs Campbell & Martin, W.S., Edinburgh.
Letter dated 20/6/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to Messrs Campbell & Martin, W.S., Edinburgh, regarding a claim for compensation by a Mrs MacLean whose land was interfered with by the Trustees of Gott Bay Pier, the Superior the Duke of Argyll, and their contractors during the construction of Gott Bay pier.
Letter dated 4/7/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to the solicitors of the Argyll Estates.
Letter dated 4/7/1910 from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to Messrs Campbell & Martin, W.S., Edinburgh, regarding a claim for compensation by a Mrs MacLean.
Letter from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to the solicitors of the Argyll Estates.
Letter from G. Woulfe Brenan of Oban to Messrs Campbell & Martin, W.S., Edinburgh, regarding a claim for compensation by a Mrs MacLean.
Booklet `With the Colours`.
A booklet of psalms and hymns for soldiers in the field, inscribed with the name M. MacKinnon, Herefordshire, 1915.
Black and white photograph of the daughters of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe.
The daughters of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe, photographed around 1910.
L-R: Daisy, Mona, Dulcie, Flora Mavis, Ruby, Kate.
Admissions Register for Ruaig School 1919-1969, giving date of admission, pupils’ full name and date of birth, name of parent or guardian, relationship, address, name of last school, date of leaving, and cause of leaving or where gone. Birth dates range from 1911 to 1963. Lists the previous schools of 76 boarded-out children. Includes four separate daily registers for years ending July 1967, 68, 69 and 70, recorded by teacher J M McFarlane, and miscellaneous other papers.
This, and all other school admission registers that we held, has now been returned to Argyll & Bute Council archives
