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Blantyre Company, 1909

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In April 1909, the Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly news reported that the Blantyre company (of Territorials) were again up to strength with a decent compliment of young men enrolled for volunteer military duty. However, it was stated that there was always room for more. The reporter added the somewhat sarcastic comment to this news […]

Remembrance Day Blantyre 1942

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  There’s a good description of the Remembrance Day service in a local newspaper on 14th November 1942. How much more personal this service must have been to the people , actually experiencing the war and losing those men in those same years. “A very large turnout of the Blantyre Company of the Home Guard under […]