THANKS ROVER-I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL THE DETAILS OF TOM HUNTER V.C'.S GALLANTRY-HE LEARNED HS RUDIMENTARY MILITARY SKILLS IN THE GORGIE/STENHOUSE EDINBURGH BATTALION OF THE HOME GUARD OF WHICH HE WAS AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEMBER-TYNECASTLE SCHOOL BEING IN THE GORGIE DISTRICT OF EDINBURGH. I STILL CAN'T GET OV...

IN WORLD WAR TWO the ONLY Royal Marine to win a V.C was Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter in Italy in 1945 at Lake someplace with only five weeks of the war to go. Hunter from Edinburgh, Scotland, was educated at the same Tynecastle School in Edinburgh where World War One poet Wilfred Owen taught English ...

One can only hope that the days when one of Queen Victoria's most succesful Imperialst Scottish General ''Fighting Hector McDonald shot himself on the floor of a Paris, France, Hotel because he was about to be ''outed'' as a gay man in the 1890's have gone forever. One of Great Britain's most daring...

Back in 1835 the nearest military barracks to Portobello-then a town in Midlothian-until incorporated into Edinburgh at the start of the 20th century-was Piershill cavalry braacks just one mile away from Prtobello so chances are that your ancestor may hve seen a cavalry regiment from Piershill barra...