Photocopied photograph of a funeral cortege at Soroby graveyard in 1944.
Funeral cortege at Soroby graveyard in 1944.
1999.113.9
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1999.113.14
Black and white photograph of war graves at Soroby graveyard.
World War II graves at Soroby.
1999.113.15
Black & white photograph of Mrs Revilliod and Grace Campbell of Tullymet, Gott, at the graveside of Flt. Lt. Leonard Revilliod who was killed in a mid-air collision over Island House in August 1944.
Courtesy of Mrs Grace Campbell
On the 16th August 1944, two Halifax aircraft from 518 Squadron took off for air tests before their usual nightly weather reconnaissance flights. They lost sight of each other in patchy cloud and collided, killing all on board.
An eyewitness on the top of Ben Hynish reported seeing one plane taking off while the other was coming in. ‘They appeared to come so close to each other that they tipped wings…and the next thing the two of them went up in flames and you could see the wheels with the tyres burning and falling right to the ground…’
One of those killed was Flight Lieutenant Leonard Revilliod, a grandson of the Czechoslovakian Prime Minister, Jan Masyrak, who flew with his daughter-in-law to Tiree for the funeral. The photograph shows Grace Campbell and Mrs Revilliod at her son’s graveside at Soroby in Balemartine.
1999.113.17
Black and white photograph of Soroby graveyard in 1944.
Soroby graveyard in 1944 with a line of war graves on the right.
1999.113.21
Black and white photograph of a funeral cortege in 1944.
Funeral cortege at Soroby graveyard in 1944.
1999.113.29
Black and white photograph of the funeral held at Soroby on 20/8/1944.
The funeral at Soroby graveyard of the airmen who died in a mid-air collision on 16th August 1944. The funeral was held on the 20th August. One of the dead was Flt. Lt. Leonard Revilliod whose grandfather, Tomas Masaryk, was the first President of Czechoslovakia. Attending the funeral were Leonard`s mother, Olga Masaryk (daughter of Tomas Masaryk) and Jan Masaryk (Olga`s brother), who was the Czech Ambassador to the UK. Olga Masaryk married Dr Henri Revilliod.
1999.113.30
Black and white photograph of the funeral held at Soroby on 20/8/1944.
The funeral at Soroby graveyard of the airmen who died in a mid-air collision on 16th August 1944.
1998.72.1
Leaflet about St Columba and Tiree by the Rev. Robert Higham.
Acoount of Columban settlements on Tiree.
1997.128.1
Photocopied extract from `Origines Parociales Scotiae`, 1850, pp 327-31.
History of the parishes of Soroby and Kirkapol from 1292 – 1635.
1997.82.1
Nine Transcripts of Feis lecture `Columba`s Other Island?` given by Prof. Donald Meek in 1997.
St. Columba and early Christianity in Tiree.