Paperback book `Survival against the Odds` by Donald J. MacLeod.
The story of petty Officer Donald MacKinnon, a Russian Convoy survivor in WWII.
2000.125.1
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1999.207.3
Hardback book `Fit for Heroes?` by Leah Leneman.
Land settlement in post-World War I Scotland.
2000.74.1
Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh talking to Maggie Campbell in March 2000.
Janet MacIntosh of Caoles and Balinoe talks to Maggie Campbell in March 2000 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her pastimes, the delivery of a telegram from Balinoe Post Office, wartime and the pictures, the funeral of 16 RAF crew members who died in a plane crash, monthly ceilidhs, dances and Gaelic plays, travelling shops, funerals, transport, gathering and cooking seafood and seaweed, and the health benefits of sea water.
2004.36.6
Copy of letter dated 8/3/2004 to Katinka Stentoft from Alasdair Sinclair of Brock.
Information about Norse settlements of Tiree and difficulties in identifying them: the effects of wind-blown sand on the landscape, the scarcity of stone for building, the frequent winter flooding and the need for ditching, and the road-building programme during World War II (with three pages of photocopied photos). (For Katinka Stentoft`s settlement survey see 2004.40.1)
2004.34.1
Printout of colour scan of an RAF Tiree Station Theatre programme for 6/4/1945.
RAF Tiree Station Theatre programme for `The Mixture` performed on 6/4/1945.
2004.34.2
Printout of colour scan of RAF `Met` sorties during World War II.
Map of the eastern North Atlantic with weather reconnaisance flight patterns over the North Atlantic and North Sea flown by the RAF during World War II.
2004.34.3
Printout of colour scan of Warrant Officer Derek Dolwin`s flight logbook.
Page from 518 Squadron Warrant Officer Derek Dolwin`s flight logbook for 9th to 30th June 1944 showing entry for plane LK692 which crashed on take-off on the 27th.
1999.291.24
Paperback book `The Hebrides at War` by Mike Hughes.
Illustrated account of the men and women who served and lived in Oban and the Hebrides during World War II.
2000.67.1
Audio cassette recording of Vivienne Johnston talking to Dr John Holliday in March 2000.
Vivienne Johnston of Heanish talks to Dr John Holliday in March 2000 about her relations in Balemartine, coming on holiday every year as a child then as an evacuee in 1939, her stay at Taylor’s Cottage, her experiences at Balemartine School where Gaelic was the language of the playground, the kindness of the MacDonalds at Catrim, going to the pictures, the wartime plane crashes, experiences of her later life and how living on Tiree has affected her.
2000.88.2
Newspaper article about Churchill and a plan to evacuate the Royal Family to Canada via Tiree in the event of a German invasion.
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