Information regarding wartime buildings on Tiree
Printed emails, weblinks, photographs and text by Martin Briscoe regarding the names, locations and purposes of some of the wartime buildings still apparent on Tiree since the 1930s.
Click here to view 2013.103.1 (version 2, June 2016)
Information about some of the photos in book `Tiree – War among the Barley and Brine`, 2013
Printed email from Wing Cdr Bryn Lewis, formerly of RAF Tiree, with the names of people he served with from some of the photos in the book `Tiree – War among the Barley and Brine`. Names included: Smith, Sturdy, Parrot, Worthington, Greig, McKeown, Chapman, Porazka, Pickering, Hopkins, Bateson, May, Hill, Moorhouse, Reid, Kemsley, Newman, Western, Lewis, Hogarth, Hind, Hockin, Clark, Williams, Grace MacArthur, Ann MacArthur, May MacArthur. (individual photos held by An Iodhlann updated accordingly)
Information about HMS Sturdy
Printed letter, information and images from Dawn Springett, Australia, regarding the WWII destroyer HMS Sturdy that was wrecked on rocks at Sandaig in 1940 with the loss of 5 lives. Includes information on crewmember Percy Cornford.
Information about Australian Flight Officer Thomas Stephens who died in an air collision on Tiree in 1944.
Notices from Australian newspaper `The Argus` in September 1944, about the death of FO. Thomas Stephens who was killed in the mid-air collision between to Halifax aircraft over Tiree in 1944; information about Stephens from the Commonwealth War Graves website; photocopy of a notice in `Vetaffairs` 2012 seeking relatives and friends of Thomas Stephens and the crew of HMS Sturdy.
Recollections of the wrecking of the SS Laristan in 1942
Typed recollections of Alice Atkins (Ian Atkins` mother) regarding the shipwreck of the SS Laristan at Hough on January 19th 1942.
Letter from Mike Hughes to Alice Atkins requesting information about wartime Tiree
Typed letter from Mike Hughes to Alice Atkins dated 25.7.95 requesting information about her father`s and her experiences when her father was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Mentions George Holleyman.
CD-ROM of photographs supplementing the George Holleyman collection
CD-ROM of photographs donated by Linda Gowans to complete An Iodhlann`s collection of photographs and manuscripts created by George Holleyman when he was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Prints of same included in George Holleyman folder.
Inventory of the George Holleyman collection held at An Iodhlann 2013
Printed list of numbered items in the George Holleyman collection of artefacts, photographs, manuscripts and notebooks, held at An Iodhlann. Copy included at the start of the G Holleyman collection file folder. George Holleyman FSA was an archaeologist who was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. He carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex during the first half of the 20th century, along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.
WWII course book about ammunitions, ca. 1940
Ring-binder file folder of typed text, diagrams and hand-written notes about the use and care of ammunitions during WWII. Used by trainees taking courses. Subjects include; pyrotechnics demolition, explosives, pistol revolver, rifle, cameras, workshops. Hand-written on inside front cover is “A.R. Rodger, 45 Course, 6 Squad.
Four World War II medals
Four ribboned medals for services during World War II belonging to Lachlan `Lal` MacLean, Roadside, Balemartine: (1) brass The France and Germany Star, (2) brass The 1939-1945 Star, (3) silver The Defence Medal, (4) silver 1939-1945, bearing a lion overpowering a griffin.
