Around 75,000 British soldiers suffered from the condition during WW1. Between 1916 and 1919 Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, was used as a military psychiatric hospital for the treatment of British ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

Travel in the Highlands was severely restricted during WW1 and anyone wishing to do so ... In 1916 the North of Scotland was declared a Special Military Area (SPA) under the Defence of the Realm ...

Boylston, an American nurse serving at a British Army base hospital near the Western Front in 1918, had been running between wards of wounded patients that night, trying to calm their nerves ...