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The co-operative movement in Perth and its relationship with the labour movement, 1871-1918
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Francis Buchanan
Francis Buchanan was born on 23 March 1825 in Bridgend, in the parish of Kinnoull, Perth. His father was James Buchanan, a master joiner and cabinet maker from Callander. His mother was Catherine Ewan from Kinfauns. His parents, and four siblings who died in infancy were buried at the Old […]
Will Ballantine – trade unionist and socialist
William Ballantine (b. 1905) was due to stand in the 1932 council elections in Perth for the Independent Labour Party (ILP), which had split from the Labour Party a short time earlier. He stood outside ILP policy in doing this and received criticism for his actions. Born into a rural […]
Corporal Angus Harry McKillop
Corporal McKillop was killed two months after VE Day on 29 July 1945. The lorry he was travelling on collided with a tree at Northleach, Gloucestershire, 29 July 1945. Angus Harry McKillop was aged 37 and was the son of Dugald and Jane Ann McKillop and the husband of Jane […]
Murie Cemetery, Fairey Swordfish, pilots and crew and the River Tay
The RAF opened an airfield by the village of Errol, within the Carse of Gowrie, midway between Dundee and Perth, on 1 August 1942. Operations at RAF Errol commenced with the transfer of No. 9 (P)AFU from RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire and No. 21 AFU, which was posted there on […]
Second Lieutenant Herrick Peter Gladstone Leyden and Second Lieutenant Robert William Gladstone Leyden
Lieutenant Herrick Peter Gladstone Leyden was the son of Patrick Peter and Margaret Florence Gladstone Leyden, of Beechwood, 9 Pitcullen Terrace, Perth. Herrick was born on 24 March 1898 at Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley. His father was a Customs and Excise and Old Age Pensions Officer in Tay Street. […]
Military Personnel (army, navy, airforce) from Perthshire in the First and Second World Wars – Street/Town Guide
Kenneth Bruce, author of Where Sky and Summit Meet: Flight over Perthshire – A History: Tales of Pilots, Airfields, Aeronautical Feats, & War (2019) has researched the stories of many of those from Perthshire who served in the airforce during theFirst and Second World Wars. The list below is a STREET/TOWN index […]
Flight Lieutenant William Simpson Fraser
William (Bill) Simpson Fraser (sometimes spelt Frazer) was born on 5 June 1908 to the Alexander family of 12 Pitcullen Crescent, Perth. The family business was Messrs Frazer & Sons, Clothiers (merchant tailors and complete outfitters) which was located at 55-59 High Street, Perth, with branches in Pitlochry, Kingussie and […]
Flight Sergeant William Knaggs
When Bill Knaggs retired at the age of 60, he moved to Stanley to spend the last 23 years of his life. Bill was shot down over Northern France in 1944, only one of two crew members of his Avro Lancaster bomber to survive; Knaggs not only survived the crash, […]
Squadron Leader Ian Neil MacDougall DFC & Pilot Officer David Ormond MacDougall DFC
Both Ian and David were born 1920 Georgetown British Guiana and both attended Morrisons Academy, Crieff. Pilots who had not completed their courses at RAF Cranwell were enlisted in the regular RAF as airmen under training pilots. Ian MacDougall passed out on 21 October 1939 with a permanent commission and […]