The whole Kintyre Peninsula, every community, has a Great War Memorial with long lists of names. The loss of a generation in the Highland Regiments was apparently especially catastrophic here. One of them took pains to explain why so many non-Highland names were included, referring to that 17th Century Duke of Argyll and the smallpox epidemic. Apparently names mattered in 1918.

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Different topic; a fellow reenactor, but one with talent.

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Serious at his craft and versed in his history, here engaged in the somewhat mundane task of piping a welcome to the busloads of day-trippers from Glasgow.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744