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    96 years ago today: Highlanders at a ruined shrine near Sailly-Labourse, France

    Photograph taken 96 years ago (yesterday), showing Scottish Highlanders at a ruined shrine near Sailly-Labourse, France, 4 June 1918. Image taken by official war photographer Thomas K. Aitken.

    From the collection of the Imperial War Museum, © IWM (Q 11042).


    [SIZE="2"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]T. E. ("TERRY") HOLMES[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
    [SIZE="1"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]proud descendant of the McReynolds/MacRanalds of Ulster & Keppoch, Somerled & Robert the Bruce.[/SIZE]
    [SIZE="1"]"Ah, here comes the Bold Highlander. No @rse in his breeks but too proud to tug his forelock..." Rob Roy (1995)[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

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    Wow. Evocative. Thanks.

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    The stories that they could tell....

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