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- Dr. Rennie, Mr. Lang and Mr. Patrick were here over the week end and left on Tuesday night. Mr. Patrick is just as slow and deliberate as ever and put class after class to sleep. It is difficult to think of him having been a teacher…Stornoway 20th June, 1918
- The Board met yesterday and appointed as successor to Mr. Tait another Mr. Tait, this time, from Wishaw. They also appointed Annice Macleod as we feared they would. Papa went to the meeting and gave his reasons for thinking Annice unsuitable….. Annice has really “a cheek of brass” as my mother used to say to want to come back to this school. However we must hope she will do better than we think likely…..Stornoway, 13th June, 1918
- A very dreadful accident happened this week – Mr. Mackay, the painter, Lottie’s father, who has been working over at the Castle had a fall off the scaffold he was working on, and was so badly injured that he died the same evening… Mr. George Macleod, Lillian’s father, died this week. He had some kind of a heart attack (I think it was) some weeks ago. They are both to be buried on Monday… Stornoway, 9th June. 1918
- Did I tell you that the Germans had shelled St. Kilda? 72 shells were found but as the people had fled to the hill no one was killed. It was specially at the wireless they were firing and they did not manage to strike the mast, only some of the stays. Mr. Crichton was out in one of the whalers to advise about repairs. He brought Papa a piece of one of the shells… Stornoway, 6th June. 1918
- Word has come that John Munro had been awarded the Military Cross for his work during the Somme fighting in the early part of this great offensive. The award, however, had not been intimated until three days after his death. I hear that Angus Maclean, of your class, has been wounded again and is in hospital somewhere. I haven’t got the address yet… Stornoway, 2nd June. 1918
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So, who is from Berneray?
The BBC news reported murky grim weather for Friday as I travelled down to Berneray to attend “Exploring over 200 years of emigration from Berneray”, a conference hosted by Berneray Historical Society. However, both weather and conference were glorious! The … Continue reading
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