Copy of signal sent to Arctic Convoy J.W.55B which arrived in Murmansk on 29/12/1943.
Copy of signal sent to Arctic Convoy J.W.55B to Captain Neil MacFadyen of SS `Ocean Victory` which arrived in Murmansk on 29/12/1943.
1999.130.11
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Dates: 1940s
1999.130.16
Photocopied newspaper article about Captain Neil MacFadyen of Kenovay.
Article about Captain MacFadyen and others who brought the SS `Ocean Tide` safely into Murmansk after being hit by a torpedo in 1943.
1999.130.25.3
Three photocopied newspaper articles about (1) Tiree Association, (2) Captain Neil MacFadyen OBE of Kenovay and (3) two Tiree soldiers fighting in Sicily.
Article about two privates from Tiree, L. MacFadyen and J. McMurchie, who spent 48 hours lying wounded in a ditch during fighting on the Plain of Catania, Sicily during WWII.
1999.116.1
Account of the shipwreck of the SS Nevada by Iain Clark.
Account of the shipwreck of the SS Nevada in 1942 by Iain Clark.
2003.88.1
Black and white photograph of Meta Dunford Wood nee MacDiarmid.
Meta Dunford Wood nee MacDiarmid, daughter of estate factor Hugh MacDiarmid, photographed by Scarinish harbour in the mid-20th century.
1999.43.2
Photocopied newspaper article `Boy`s Amazing Story to Oban Policemen`.
Story of a 16 year old boy who had absonded from an approved school and conned Oban police into paying his passage to Tiree which was then a restriced area.
1999.45.1
Aliens File for Tiree from 9/7/1943 to 22/11/1961.
Aliens File for Tiree kept by police from 9/7/1943 to 22/11/1961.
1999.67.5
Record of Interment for Soroby graveyard from 21/9/1943 to 20/8/1944.
Record of Interment for Soroby graveyard from 21/9/1943 to 20/8/1944.
2003.85.2
Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn reaper.
Cutting hay with a horse-drawn reaper behind Corrairigh, Cornaigbeg in the 1940s. L-R Donald and Hector Campbell.
1998.262.1
Post Office Telephones Exchange Diary 25/9/1948 to 16/2/1974, which hung in the Tiree cable hut at Caoles. The cable hut was where the submarine cable from Mull connected to the Tiree exchange (via Coll).
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One of the first and longest serving telephone engineers was Donald Quintin Campbell, whose signature appears next to most entries in the diary during 1948-1968.