Military

Following Remembrance weekend, Denise Orzel, daughter of Private Bill “Dutch” Holland, a commando who had participated in Operation Chariot visited th

We have been lucky enough to receive this beautiful marquetry box in recent weeks and like many of our objects this box’s story begins right here in t

Darkness shrouded the Scottish sky one fateful night in 1692, when booted feet echoed their steps off stone walls and floors as streams of blood sprea

Syd Shadbolt – Commando 5
In 2020 the family of the late Syd Shadbolt approached the curator of the West Highland Museum, regarding a collection of W

Although the first garrison at Fort William was erected in 1654, it was not until 1690 that the timber and earthwork construction was replaced by a mo

It’s armistice day and one hundred years since the consecration of the tomb of the unknown warrior. On Radio nan Gàidheal Murdo Paton related how th

ST VALERY-EN-CAUX JUNE 1940
In his book, ‘Fo Sgàil A’ Swastika”(“Under the Shadow of the Swastika”)(1), Donald John MacDonald recounts what happened