Scanned copy of a poem written during WWI ‘The Kaiser’s arrival in Hell (Official)’.
2009.89.6
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2009.89.5
Photograph of a bronze plaque commemorating Private Hugh Lamont of Mannal (1885-1917), and inscribed with the words “He died for freedom and honour”.
These round commemorative plaques, measuring about 11.5 cm in diameter, were given to the next of kin of men and women who died in the Great War, WWI, 1914-1918. They were accompanied by a commemorative scroll (see 2009.89.2).
2016.23.1
Pen-knife style cutlery set of knife, fork and spoon, issued to Royal Navy sailors during the First World War.
2016.2.17
Studio portrait photograph of soldier Rupert Funnis in uniform, taken in Westminster in 1919. From a collection from Mannal House.
2016.2.32
Memorial card for the funeral of Private Angus MacCallum of the 7th Cameron Highlanders, who was killed in action in France in 1915. Amongst the belongings of the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal House.
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2015.52.1
One of the ceramic red poppies from the display of 888,246 from the Tower of London in 2014 commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war. Each represented one British or colonial life lost. Bought and donated by Greta Travers who was posted to Tiree as a WAAF in 1945, during the second world war. The poppy was placed in the ground in front of the RAF Halifax memorial at Tiree’s airport for a while during 2015. See also 2017.12.2
2015.41.2
Fabric covered book ‘Songs of Victory’, 1925. Hymn book belonging to Mary B MacDonald, Mannal House.
2015.40.12
Black & white photograph of a man and woman with two small children standing on a beach in the 1910s. Note the battleships in the background. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.8
Black and white postcard photograph of a wooden cross in a WWI graveyard with the inscription “In memory of 1046 Pte. H. McDonald, A. COY., 15th HLI., died of wounds 26-8-16”. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.7
Black & white portrait photograph on a postcard, of a soldier in uniform during WWI. On the reverse it reads “To Auntie Katie from Jack I am send you to difernt ones I thought you might like to see him in full uniform he has gone to the front from Annie Campbell”. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House. The soldier may be Private H. MacDonald, who died in action in 1916.
