Abstract
In the years after the Armistice in 1918, it was clear that men of Scottish birth or descent from overseas had chosen to fight in large numbers, for as local Scottish war memorials were erected and town and village books of remembrance were published, very few of these appeared that did not include the name of at least one Scot from the Empire or beyond. But how extensive was the Scottish element in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and how were these men seen in the local communities they had left? This chapter shows how the involvement of individual Australian soldiers in the war was reported in the local press in one of ten Scottish Regimental Areas influenced how the Australian soldier of Scottish birth or descent was seen in Scotland.
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Notes
- 1.
Stuart Allan and David Forsyth, Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War (Edinburgh: N.M.S., 2014), vii.
- 2.
T.M. Devine, To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora (London: Alan Lane, 2011), 289–290.
- 3.
Stuart and Forsyth, Common Cause, 138.
- 4.
Peoples Journal, April 14, 1917. [All Editions.]
- 5.
The 42nd Area was covered by 39 newspapers. One provided daily coverage in Dundee and another, the Dundee Courier covered the entire Area in different editions. The remainder, including the Peoples Journal which covered almost all of Scotland in different editions, were generally published on a weekly basis.
- 6.
Catriona MacDonald, “Race, Riot and Representations of War,” in Scotland and the Great War, edited by Catriona Macdonald and E.W. McFarland (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999), 150.
- 7.
See Map.
- 8.
Tanja Bueltman, Andrew Hinson and Graeme Morton. The Scottish Diaspora (Edinburgh: E.U.P., 2013), 132–147.
- 9.
Craig Tibbits, “‘A military fervour akin to religious fanaticism:’ Scottish Military Identity in the Australian Imperial Force.” In A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland’s Diaspora, edited by David Forsyth and Wendy Ugolini, 128–149 (Edinburgh: E.U.P., 2016).
- 10.
Anon, Arbroath and District Roll of Honour 1914–1919 (Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1921).
- 11.
Ibid.
- 12.
A. McGregor, Comrie War Memorial (Perth: Perthshire Advertiser, 1921).
- 13.
Golden Book: Perth and Perthshire Roll of Honour (Perth: Munro and Scott, 1928).
- 14.
Arbroath Herald, December 18, 914.
- 15.
Ibid.
- 16.
Dundee Courier, December 12, 1916.
- 17.
Perthshire Advertiser, May 16, 1917.
- 18.
Arbroath Herald, July 16, 1916.
- 19.
Ibid., September 17, 1915.
- 20.
Perthshire Advertiser, June 12, 1915.
- 21.
Fife Free Press, September 23, 1916.
- 22.
Fifeshire Advertiser, February 19, 1916.
- 23.
Perthshire Advertiser, June 14, 1916.
- 24.
Dundee Courier, December 23, 1916. Similar re. Pte Jamieson Blairgowrie Advertiser, September 23, 1916.
- 25.
Ibid., April 4, 1918.
- 26.
Fife Free Press, June 29, 1918.
- 27.
Perthshire Advertiser, August 25, 1917.
- 28.
Fife Free Press, June 16 and August 4, 1917.
- 29.
Arbroath Herald, September 17 and October 29, 1915.
- 30.
Perthshire Advertiser, May 23, 1917.
- 31.
Ibid., November 13, 1918.
- 32.
Dundee Courier, August 18, 1916.
- 33.
Peoples Journal, August 24, 1918.
- 34.
Fifeshire Advertiser, November 20, 1915.
- 35.
Dundee Courier, August 22, 1917.
- 36.
Ibid., December 15, 1916, and August 7, 1917.
- 37.
Ibid., August 9, 1916.
- 38.
Ibid., August 15, 1916.
- 39.
The Archive could not provide a comparative figure for the AIF.
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Brown, F. (2019). They Wandered Far and Wide: The Scottish Soldier in the Australian Imperial Force. In: Kerby, M., Baguley, M., McDonald, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_16
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