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The Military Service Appeal Tribunals handled appeals against conscription from 1916 onwards.
Wills of men who fought and fell during the Normandy invasion, 6 June 1944.
New light on Scottish troops during Market Garden, the Allied operation in September 1944.

The Battle of Waterloo and the stirring events of 1815 are reflected in Scottish parish regi

At approximately 7.15pm on 28 December 1879 the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed.

The irregular marriages of a Japanese whisky pioneer, a lion tamer and an actor.