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20 September 2024

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Arnhem, 1944

“Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far”...

8 August 2024

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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..

5 June 2024

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D-Day – the Normandy Beach Landings

One of the things that stands out from archives here, is the amount of personal..

29 April 2024

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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..

25 April 2024

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GALLIPOLI 25 APRIL 1915

Borderers, on this day our forefathers of the 1st Bn assaulted Y beach on the..

7 April 2024

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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..

8 March 2024

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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..

27 February 2024

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Donald Gray

On screen he was the one-armed Private Investigator Mark Saber, delivering witty one-liners, solving misdeeds..

12 January 2024

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Footballer Jack Jones and the 1929 Army Cup

A black and white photograph of 17 men, dated 1929. A mixture of officers in..

18 December 2023

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The Scrapbook of A.H. Turner, 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Borderers

It was Saturday the 22nd of April, 1863, Edinburgh. The 25th Regiment held an extravagant..

30 November 2023

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COLOURS RETURN 30 NOV 1948

Borderers, please click on link for a short piece on the !st BN Colours being..

2 November 2023

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A Very Hopkins Christmas

My first encounter with Sergeant Hopkins was in a photograph. He has a huge moustache..

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