However, the main purpose of this contribution is to record my recollection of the first air-raid of the war, which was in Scotland, over the Firth of Forth, on 16 October 1939. I then lived in ...

HMS Royal Oak with HMS Revenge behind - vessels of the Home Fleet visit the Firth of Forth in 1938 ... and author Hamish Haswell-Smith in his book ‘The Scottish islands’.

The raid took place on the Firth of Forth (Scotland) on 16th October, 1039 when the Forth Rail Bridge and the Royal Navy vessels were bombed. I did not know at the time that it was a young Group ...

A trail of beacons has been lit along both sides of the Firth of Forth in a gesture of hope and ... which has been ravaged by civil war. Communities along the coast lit torches at 17:00 on Sunday.

A vessel which rescued hundreds of soldiers from the beaches of Normandy during the famous evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II is still in service on the Firth of Forth. Did you know with a ...

The surrender of the German high seas fleet in the Forth off Cockenzie ten days after ... featured the “greatest collection of ships of war ever seen in the world’s history”.

However, the main purpose of this contribution is to record my recollection of the first air-raid of the war, which was in Scotland, over the Firth of Forth, on 16 October 1939. I then lived in ...