Archives
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Flat Feel, Scandal and Soldiering: life with 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Borderers, in the 1860s.
“I am pleased to know that my grandfather’s letters will find their last home amongst..
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This day brings back his memory fresh…
By Susan Higgins At the outset of war in 1914, Berwick Barracks was filled with..
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Alexander Robertson – “A Naïve Little Watercolour”
by Susan Higgins “A naïve little watercolour” is how this portrait was described when it..
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A Prisoner Looks Back
Charles Edie – WW2 Commando By Susan Higgins Dear family, I’m going off – “don’t..
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Tales of a Jacket
By Susan Higgins The newly organised uniform stores in the museum of The King’s Own..
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Arnhem, 1944
“Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far”…
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The Pennyman Family and The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
From 1878 until 1924, there was a member of the Pennyman family in a prominent..
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The Normandy Beach Landings
One of the things that stands out from archives here, is the amount of personal..
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Part Two – Captain Lumgair, 1st/4th Battalion KOSB
The following takes place over the course of a year, April to April, as Captain..
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GALLIPOLI 25 APRIL 1915
Borderers, on this day our forefathers of the 1st Bn assaulted Y beach on the..
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Part One – Writing, Memory, Grief: Processing Gallipoli
An archive photograph of the Hawick Territorials in August 1914. They march off to join..
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Women of The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Wandering through The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Museum, amongst its stores and archive rooms, it..