Holocaust Memorial Day -South Ayrshire Kindertransport Connections

When the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the territories under its control escalated in November 1938, the British government agreed to relax immigration restrictions and allow unaccompanied Jewish refugee children under the age of 17 to enter the country on temporary travel visas. Private citizens or welfare groups such as refugee aid committees […]

Final speaker announced for History Fair 2013

Flying the Ayrshire Hump: Prestwick Airport, Wartime flights and crash sites Terence Christian Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow completes the impressive line up of speakers for this year’s History Fair. Terence will be talking about air traffic to Prestwick during the Second World War, especially aircraft that crashed on high ground […]

Ayrshire’s Infantry Regiment: the Royal Scots Fusiliers

Each year, Remembrance Day sees commemoration services at the many war memorials scattered throughout Ayrshire. The men and women whose names are inscribed on them served in a wide variety of units of the Armed Services, but one of those most prominently represented is the county’s regular infantry regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers. The regiment […]