Lovat Scouts

Category

Library Item

Item no

33844

Title

Lovat Scouts

Description

Left to right Archibald Tait, Bill's Great Uncle together with his cousins Peter Clark and Andrew Clark.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1916

Size

8.8 x 13.8 cm

Type

Photograph; Postcard

Copyright

Reproduced by kind permission of William J. Hall

The photographs in this exhibition were kindly loaned to us by Bill Hall for our digital collections. It contains images dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, taken across Scotland.

Brought up in Edinburgh he has collected many family photographs and items covering his mother's early years and his own boyhood.

In 1916, the Lovat Scouts formally became the British Army's first sniper unit, then known as sharpshooters. During WW1 they saw service on the Western Front, at Gallipoli , and Egypt and Macedonia.

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