Armed forces

Many young men fought in battles accross the world. Pupils discovered what life was like for servicemen who fought during the war.

• Czechoslovakian Airmen: [text & image]
• HMS Belfast veterans: [text & Image: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4]
• Mr Paul Lippock, German prisoner of war: [text & image]
• Mr Kenneth MacLennan, prisoner of war: [text: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Poem transcript ]
• Mr Munro, Lovat Scouts: [text & image: Part 1 / Part 2]
• Mr Matthew Murray, RAF Rear Gunner: [text & image: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3]
• St Valery and the 51st Highland Division: [text & image: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3]

Home front

Not everyone went to fight in the war. Many people worked as part of the war effort at home, while children were often evacuated from large towns to the country. Pupils found out what it was like to live at home during the war years.

• Mr Frank Dinger, life In the Netherlands during WW2: [text & image]
• Mr John Fleming, child during war: [text & image]
• Mr Louden, child during war: [text & image]
• Ailsa Munro, Land Army: [text & image]
• Mrs Veronica Potter, evacuee: [text & image]
• Margaret Ross, bus conductress: [text & image]
• Forbie Urquhart, rationing: [document]

Staff and Pupils relations

During the project, staff and pupils spoke to their relatives about what happend to them during the war. They found that many of their own reletives had stories to tell about war.

• Cameron’s Great, Great Uncle: [text & image]
• Carlene’s Granny Christina Murray: [text & image]
• Dale’s Granddad, Granny and Grand Uncle: [text & image]
• Miss De J’s Mother and Father: [text & image]
• Emma's Grandfather: [text & image]
• Frances' Relatives, Horace Smith, Frank & Magaret Taylor-Walker: [text & image]
• Lauren and Lachlan’s Grandfather,
  Kenneth David Gray Whyte: [text & image]
• Mary Sleith’s Mother’s Story: [text & image]
• Pauline Marshall’s Father, Major R. Geoffery Haggett: [text & image]
• Mrs Rosalie Sutherland’s Father in Law,
  George Sutherland: [text & image]
• Scott’s Great Grandfather,
  John MacKay: [document]

Evacuation of Inver

In 1993 pupils produced a booklet about the evacuation of Inver in 1943. The whole of the village was evacuated to allow troops to rehearse for Normandy landings.

• Part 1- Introduction: [text & image]
• Part 2- Shopping in Inver: [text & image]
• Part 3- The summer of 1943: [text]
• Part 4- The evacuation: [text & image]
• Part 5- Leaving the village: [text & image]
• Part 6- Evacuation of the land: [text]
• Part 7- Newspaper resports: [text]
• Part 8- Move out order: [text & image]
• Part 9- Farmers flittings: [text]
• Part 10- Clearance complete: [text]
• Part 11- Incidents remembered: [text & image]
• Part 12- Evacuation claim to fame: [text & image]
• Part 13- Returning: [text & image]
• Part 14- RAF Tain: [text & image]