There is an old photograph currently being displayed in a Crieff shop window. It is of a young man in WWI uniform of the Black Watch. It is a studio photograph and he is standing with one hand on his hip while the other, rests on the back of a high sided dining room chair, clutching a lit cigarette between the first two fingers. His boots and leg dress are caked with the mud of the front line trench he had just left. His TOS is cocked over his right ear, as regulations demanded, and as he stares confidently into the camera, he just epitomises the regimental motto, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit or Wha Daur Meddle Wi Me? The narrative accompanying the photograph reads as follows, William Duff of 111 King Street Crieff, was killed on the Somme by a sniper. William was 18.... Many in Scotland have felt it was no accident that Trident was housed on the Clyde and that the first nuclear reactor at Dounreay, as far away from the main centres of population in England as it was possible to get. That Trident sits so close to Scotlands biggest centre of population mattered little to the British Establishment and we can be forgiven for thinking that Wolfes dictum of They are little mischief if they fall... again played its part.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:35:05 +0000
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