Are we going to accept the death of the Argylls?

The Mail on Sunday, whose defence journalism is traditionally strong, Continue reading

Summer Tour dates for Alan Reid MP and Westminster related issues

Alan Reid, Westminster MP for Argyll and Bute, Continue reading

Jimmy Sinclair: with the 8th Argylls in 51st Highland Division and POW 124 in the salt mines at Bleicherode

POW 124 Postcard home

This is the story of a significant part of the life of James Sinclair of Furnace in Mid Argyll. Continue reading

Certain threat to survival of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Colin Campbell Mitchell Fair Use.Already reduced from a regiment of international renown – ‘the thin red line’ – to a battalion, 5 SCOTS or the 5th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders faced disbandment in 2009 and are now the most likely of the five regular battalions of that regiment to be axed.

The Gurkhas, with 150, are to go and are said to be the only infantry unit Continue reading

Return to Belloy: Mhairi Livingstone Ross retraces the forced march of the 51st Highland Division after St Valery

Chateau du Belloy

Argyll writer, Mhairi Livingstone Ross and her husband and made a moving and imaginative trip Continue reading