News & Events : December 2008


The website has just been updated to include some new material. I would like to thank all those who have commented so favourably on the site and where there are areas as yet uncovered I hope to be able to address them in the future.

You will find that work has just started on the Memorials section. There is a front page listing some of the 51st Highland Division Memorials. Over time each of these will have a link to its own section with a description and photograph. I have begun with Highland Division Window St Valéry en Caux and Sferro.

I have started to address the Supporting Arms and Services and you will find in the "online" museum a page on the Royal Artillery listing those units that were with the Division. I have been given a short (one page) history of 242 (Oban) Anti-Tank Battery, part of 61st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery which I have included. If anyone possess similar short histories of attached Arms or Services I would be very grateful for them.

You will also find a piece in the "online" museum on "Piobaireachd" which was the name given to the 51st Highland Division newsletter. I am indebted to Tommy Smith, the Archivist at the Black Watch Museum, for bringing this material to my attention.

I would like to thank those who have contacted me through Thorntons with offers of material for the website. Contributions, both financial to support its continued growth and of material are most welcome and should be made to me through Thorntons.

Charles Grant
Website Historian.