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First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 4 hours ago - 2 reports

Town prepares to be first to welcome home troops

INVERCLYDE will be the first place in Scotland to honour the returning Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (5 SCOTS) the 5th Battalion of the The Royal Regiment of Scotland.The battalion will march in various locations across Scotland in June and they begin ... [Published Glasgow Evening Times - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Scotland, Glasgow, Robert Moran

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Traditional send-off for camp's top man

LIEUTENANT Colonel Donald Ross OBE has retired after 17 years as Commandant of Garelochhead Training Camp.The 67-year-old had a distinguished military career, serving with Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1965 to 1996, which took him to Northern ... [Published Helensburgh Advertiser - May 19 2013]

Entities: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Charlie Robertson, Lieutenant Colonel, Northern Ireland

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Family appeal after Bute WW1 medal is unearthed

By Karen KeithPublished on 17/05/2013 12:18A medal awarded in memory of a Bute resident who died 96 years ago today (May 17) during the First World War was unearthed recently in a garden in the village of Furnace.Mr George Johnston discovered the medal ... [Published Buteman - May 17 2013]

Entities: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Next of Kin, Memory, World War I

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Vickers-Armstrongs

Major events in Inveraray and Dunoon today

Inveraray and Dunoon both host today, 12th May, events with a connection to the British armed forces.In InverarayThis morning Inveraray is seeing the Bluebell Festival’s Trail Run – starting at 11.00am in a mass ‘break out’ from Inveraray Jail’, storming ... [Published For Argyll.com - May 12 2013]

Entities: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Vickers-Armstrongs, Sonar, Royal Navy

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

School researching former students for 100th anniversary of World War I

The history department of a Surbiton school has started a research project to find out about 40 of its former students who fought in the First World War.To mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War next year, Shrewsbury House School hopes to trace ... [Published Surrey Comet - May 11 2013]

Entities: World War I, Shrewsbury High School (England), Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Dunbartonshire News: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to recreate history

by Lorraine Waddell, A battalion of soldiers are aiming to recreate history this weekend by taking on a gruelling training exercise.Superfit members of D company 7 SCOTS from Dumbarton will be taking part in the Argyll Inspiration event by running from ... [Published Lennox Herald - May 10 2013]

Entities: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Fitness, France

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

2013 Inveraray Bluebell Festival gets going

From now on we’ll be feeding in advance notice of the events in the month long 2013 Inveraray Bluebell Festival.The Bluebell Festival is organised by the Inveraray Marketing Group (IMaGe). Now in its fourth year the festival is a collection of events ... [Published For Argyll.com - May 04 2013]

Entities: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Military Expenditure, France

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Borders Resistance network research

Using the purposely vague name Auxiliary Units, this was actually a cover name for a Resistance network that covered the whole of the UK, mainly on east coast areas.Set up by the then Major Colin McVean Gubbins, individuals were recruited locally by Regular ... [Published Berwickshire News - May 02 2013]

Entities: Scotland, Peter Forbes, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Special service in Norway will honour heroic Paisley paratrooper

The family of a teenage paratrooper who was killed while liberating Norway from the Nazis are to make a poignant trip to Oslo for an emotional memorial service.Private John Shannon, from Paisley, was among 24 soldiers killed on May 10, 1945, when their ... [Published Paisley Daily Express - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Norway, Operation Doomsday, Oslo, John Shannon

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 20 reports

Teenager 'tortured' by British troops

| Iraq UK By Claire SadlerA teenager who it is claimed was unlawfully killed by British troops in Iraq had been tortured and hanged, his uncle has claimed.Khudur Al-Swaiedi said he was present when a number of body bags handed back by British forces ... [Published BFBS Gibraltar - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Torture, Detainee, Danny Boy, Witness

First reported Feb 13 2013 - Updated Feb 14 2013 - 2 reports

Scottish News: No Taliban 'souvenir' charges: MoD

No charges are to be brought against three British service personnel who were accused of keeping body parts of dead Taliban fighters as "souvenirs".It was originally reported that the allegations were made against one soldier from The Argyll and Sutherland ... [Published West Lothian Courier - Feb 13 2013]

Entities: Taliban, Ministry of Defence, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Operation Herrick, Royal Regiment of Scotland

First reported Dec 20 2012 - Updated Dec 20 2012 - 2 reports

Liveblogging World War II: December 20, 1942

World War II Today: Denis Foreman : At the end of 1942 Denis Forman was a Major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, posted to the Shetland Isles, in the far north of Great Britain, closer to Norway than to London. He had developed an interest ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Dec 20 2012]

Entities: Denis Forman, World War II, Assault, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Nitrocellulose

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"It is an honour to be the first community in Scotland to be visited by them and we look forward to welcoming them and showing our support to our soldiers."

Town prepares to be first to welcome home troops [Published Glasgow Evening Times - 4 hours ago]

"It is an honour to be the first community in Scotland to be visited by them and we look forward to welcoming them and showing our support to our soldiers. I would encourage as many residents of Inverclyde and visitors to join us at 11am on 11 June to honour the Battalion and to welcome many of our own back to Inverclyde."

Soldiers set for Inverclyde salute [Published Greenock Telegraph - May 21 2013]

Charlie Robertson, estate manager at the camp, said: "A great night was had by all although Garelochhead Training Camp has lost a valuable member of staff as well as a great friend."

Traditional send-off for camp's top man [Published Helensburgh Advertiser - May 19 2013]

...realised that the church just wasn’t speaking to ordinary folks’ lives," says Peter Macdonald, the 55-year-old leader of the Iona Community. "George was concerned about the breakdown of community, and I think that has only accelerated over the last 75 years. In society and also politically there’s greater individualism, greater materialism. For more people today, the Christian faith is seen as an irrelevance. It just doesn’t engage with the things that they’re concerned about. So we try in our way to show ways in which faith is relevant to the issues and challenges folk face."

Seeking spiritual enlightenment on Iona [Published The Scotsman - May 19 2013]

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2013 Inveraray Bluebell Festival gets going [Published For Argyll.com - May 04 2013]
Borders Resistance network research [Published Berwickshire News - May 02 2013]
Special service in Norway will honour heroic Pa... [Published Paisley Daily Express - Apr 27 2013]
Teenager 'tortured' by British troops [Published BFBS Gibraltar - Apr 18 2013]
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Detailed guidance: UK forces: operations in Afg... [Published Inside government - Ministry of Defence - Apr 03 2013] Updated: Chronology of events in Afghanistan updated to 26 Mar 13 UK forces are deployed to Afghanistan in support of the UN-authorised, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission and as part of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom ...
Liveblogging World War II: December 20, 1942 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Dec 20 2012] World War II Today: Denis Foreman : At the end of 1942 Denis Forman was a Major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, posted to the Shetland Isles, in the far north of Great Britain, closer to Norway than to London. He had developed an interest ...
Liveblogging World War II: December 20, 1942 [Published Brad DeLong - Dec 20 2012] World War II Today: Denis Foreman:At the end of 1942 Denis Forman was a Major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, posted to the Shetland Isles, in the far north of Great Britain, closer to Norway than to London. He had developed an interest in the ...