Newspaper cutting about veterans visiting Tiree.
Article and photograph of a group of eight veterans visiting Tiree. Date unknown. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)
2005.60.1
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2005.60.2
Black and white photograph of an unknown airman.
Unknown airman during WWII. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)
2005.60.3
Black and white photograph of four unknown airmen during WWII.
Four unknown airmen in WWII, inscribed on back with `Snell, Sussie, Stuart, Plane`. No date given. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)
2005.55.5
Letter and two photographs about the Tyne Cot cemetery and memorial to the dead of Passchandaele 1917.
Letter and two photographs from a schoolgirl, Franscesca Parcitti, about the Tyne Cot cemetery and memorial to those who died at Passchandaele in 1917. One photograph shows the memorial to those whose bodies were never found including the name of C. MacDonald from Tiree, an uncle of Effy MacDonald of Middleton.
2005.6.1
Mini-disk recording of Murdoch MacDonald, Kilmoluaig talking to Maggie Campbell on 15/1/2005.
Murdoch MacDonald, Kilmoluaig talks to Maggie Campbell in January 2005 about the people in Kilmoluaig, the contrast between how things were when he was young and how they are now, the nights he spent with friends during World War II, the things he did with Maggie’s father on his croft, and he lists the names of all the crofts and house in the township.
1999.139.1
Composition `One Boy`s War` by Iain M. Clark.
Author`s memories of Rockfield Primary School and Oban and district during 1939-45, written for his grandson.
2000.27.2
Black and white photograph of John MacKinnon and Catherine MacNeill on their wedding day in the 1920s.
John MacKinnon of Kilmoluaig (1885-1962) and Catherine MacNeill of Main Road Farm, Balephuil (1888-1953) on their wedding day in Glasgow around 1925. John was the son of Hector MacKinnon and his wife Mary Lamont. As an ex-service man in the Merchant Navy during World War I, he was allocated the croft at 34 Balephetrish where he and his wife built their home. They had no family. Both are buried in Soroby.
2004.212.2
Authority to wear war medals for the Mercantile Marine.
Authority to wear war medals for the Mercantile Marine issued to John MacArthur of the Neuk, Vaul on 30/9/1926.
2004.212.1
1914-18 War Medal for the Mercantile Marine.
1914-18 War Medal for the Mercantile Marine with ribbon and envelope with instructions how to wear it, owned by John MacArthur of the Neuk, Vaul.
2000.172.1
Audio cassette recording of George Holleyman talking to Dr Euan Mackie in An Iodhlann on 26/7/2000.
George Holleyman talks to Dr Euan Mackie of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow in July 2000 about the Stone Age flints, bronze objects and Iron Age pottery that he found in Balevullin and Balephuil while he was a service policeman on Tiree during 1941 to 1943. Also present are Ian Atkins of Balephuil and Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig.