Black and white photograph of Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, and others.
L-R: (back row) John MacKinnon; unknown airman; Kate MacKinnon; unknown airman; (front row) Hendry (Elsie`s adopted brother); Jimmy Sibbald of Glasgow; and Elsie MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, taken during WWII.
Black and white photograph of Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, and others.
L-R: unknown airman, Jimmy Sibbald of Glasgow, unknown airman, Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm and Hendry, Elsie`s adopted brother, at the window, taken during WWII.
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Home Guard during WWII.
Tiree Home Guard. L-R: (front row) Donald MacIntyre, Gott; Calum Maclean, Salum; Alasdair Brown, Kilkenneth; Jock Graham; MacLaren (factor); Hugh MacArthur, Tullymet; Walter Hume, Hynish; Calum MacIntyre, Gott; Donald Archie Allan, Balephuil; (back row) Robert MacMaster, Kenovay; Hugh MacArthur, Caoles; Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig; Donald MacLean, Vaul; Alasdair MacInnes, Ruaig; Hugh MacLean, Barrapol; Donald Campbell, Balemartine; Sandy Campbell, East Hynish; Neil MacDonald, Skipnish; Calum MacDonald, Mannal.
Black and white photograph of taken at Am Bail` Ur in 1947.
Am Bail` Ur, Balephuil in 1947. L-R: Mrs MacKay, Ellen MacDonald, Ellen MacAnally, Kate MacDonald. Note the quern stone leaning on the left.
Black and white postcard of Taigh `Milly` in Scarinish.
Postcard of Taigh `Milly`, Amelia Cameron`s house in Scarinish, around 1940.
Black and white photograph of the gravestone of Hector Cameron and his wife Anna MacLean.
The gravestone of Hector Cameron (d. 23/9/1923) and his wife Anna MacLean (d. 28/1/1925) and their children Mairi Anna, Flora, Margaret Christina, the Rev. Hector (co-author of the Tiree & Coll Handbook) and Mairi.
Hough NAAFI in March 1943
Photograph of Hough NAAFI in March 1943.
Courtesy of Mr Willie Dickie
There were two NAAFIs (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) on Tiree during World War II: one at Crossapol and the other at Hough, confusingly referred to as Kilkenneth NAAFI by the RAF. Their purpose was to provide retail services and run recreational establishments for the Armed Forces.
Open all day for tea, snacks, beer and cigarettes, the NAAFIs were the hub of many people’s social life. There was a billiard room and a library of sorts. Servicemen and those in the Merchant Navy were admitted but civilians were often allowed in too.
Hut K2, ‘the booze shop’, at Hough was a popular meeting point for locals and servicemen. After monopolising the beer bar on Sunday lunch times, the local Home Guard was finally banned, as were the Italian POWs.
Black and white photograph of Hough NAAFI in March 1943.
Hough NAAFI in March 1943. L-R: (front) Annie Ross, Pat (surname unknown), Miss Sommerville, Edith Martin, (back) unknown, Jessie MacKillop of Bunessan, unknown, Effie Dickie nee MacKinnon of Caoles, cook (name unknown), unknown, Lottie MacDonald, Cathie MacLean of Heylipol, unknown, Kitty MacKinnon of Salen in Mull, Mary Flora MacDonald, manager Gordon Christie, Eliza MacLean, unknown.
Black and white photograph of the RAF badge of 281 Squadron.
The RAF badge of 281 Squadron, produced by the College of Arms in January 1943.
The victorious Scotland team
Photograph of the victorious Scotland team in the ‘international’ football match played at RAF Tiree in 1944.
Courtesy of Mr Willie Dickie
In 1944, the RAF Sports Officer on Tiree was Dan Squires who batted for Surrey County cricket team before the war. He would coach players in the gymnasium and they would practise on a wicket set up on the airfield.
Athletic Days were regular events. Bets on the races were taken by the station’s Accounts Officer, the Hon. John Grimston, with the profits going to help the war effort.
Football was a popular sport with the young men on the base and in May 1944 Dan organised a special ‘international’ between ‘Scotland’ and ‘England’ which was won by the Scottish team.
Black and white photograph of the `Scotland` football team in May 1943.
The victorious Scotland football team who played against England in Tiree on 30th May 1944. L-R: (back) referee Cowan, Morton, Jamieson, Gillespie, Anderson, Holmes, Preston, (front) Willie Dickie, Byrne, Duncan, Liddell and Shiels.
Black and white photograph of the Electrical Section at RAF Tiree in July 1944.
The Electrical Section at RAF Tiree in July 1944. L-R: (back) L. Holden, A. Bairds, Willie Dickie, R. Murdens (?), F. Mitchell, K. Salt, J. Silvester, A. McDonald, (front) T. Heaps, Chippy Hambrooke, Chippy Couray (?), W. Strickland.
