LINKS

This Links Directory contains links to a selection of relevant web pages on the Cameronians and other military or Scottish related sites.

LATEST: Recommended Reading:

Great Grandfathers Great War:
Fascinating diary by a Cameronian Officer serving with 3rd Battalion in the WW1

Commando Country by Stuart Allan

Flowers of the Forest - Scotland and the Great War by Trevor Royle

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

A Coming Storm - Book One: The Beautiful Mrs Graham
- by Peter Craigie

Tartan by Hugh Cheape - best selling book on Tartan and its History.

The Thin Red Line / War, Empire and Visions of Scotland
- by Stuart Allan and Allan Carswell 

THE CAMERONIANS

9th Battalion and 15th (Scottish) Division – uniforms, equipment and weapons:
http://www.cameronians.com/history.htm

The Cameronians in the First World War:
http://www.1914-1918.net/scotrif.htm

Glasgow-based site, includes photographs and some background to Private Henry May:
http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/folk/forces7.htm

Images of the Cameronians War Memorial:
www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_images.php?sub=cameronians

Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers Football Club:
http://www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/livingston.htm

Various historical and contemporary information including photographs:
http://www.carstairs.org.uk/cams/

Photographs of the Cameronians in Germany 1954-6:
http://www.cameronians.org.uk/

Museum in Westkapelle, the German stronghold liberated by the Cameronians in 1944:
www.polderhuiswestkapelle.nl

1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in Germany & Edinburgh in the '60s
Fascinating collection of black and white photopgraphs:
http://www.edwardboyle.com/

OTHER RELATED SITES

The Army Children Archive:

http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/home.html

The story of Glasgow in words and images:
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/index.php

National Archives:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

British WWI Pension Records :
www.ancestry.co.uk

Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
www.cwgc.org

Non-world War Graves

http://www.army.mod.uk/soldierwelfare/cascomp/non_world_war_graves_nwg_.htm

Scottish National War Memorial:
www.snwm.org

Site covering all Scottish regiments:
http://www.scottishmilitaryheritage.com/

Army Museums Ogilby Trust – General site for army museums & ancestor research:
http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/index.htm

UK Army Lists – General information site including details of how to trace military ancestors:
http://www.armylists.org.uk/

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