A picture of Dr Andrew Jeffrey delivering a brilliant lecture to the Branch in Edinburgh during Sunday 12th October on the "Sea Soldiers" - the Royal Naval Division in the Great War. Many thanks to Andrew, our members and friends of the Branch for making it a great event.

The sinking of HMS Hawke - 15 Oct 1914. Torpedoed by German submarine U-9, about 70 miles east of Fraserburgh, with the loss of 527 of her crew. She was the fifth British cruiser lost to U-Boats in the North Sea in six weeks - four of them to U-9. © The rights holder (Q 75331)

Quite a photo... Captain Teddy Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe of the German Army, on secondment to the British Army's Life Guards, in front of a portrait of his great-great-grandfather, Kaiser Wilhelm II, also wearing the uniform of the Life Guards. @GilesMacDonogh @RCCoulombe

British soldiers marching through streets of Ypres, 14 October 1914.© IWM Q 70235

14 Oct 1918, Maj-Gen Louis Lipsett, hit by machine-gun bullet & died, aged 44. Funeral attended by Gen Arthur Currie & Prince of Wales. Buried in Quéant Communal Cemetery. Last British general to command Canadian division in field & last to be killed in #WW1. Pupil @BedfordSchool

Today marks the 86th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Oak by Günther Prien’s U-47. The attack demonstrated the German Navy’s ability to bring the war to Britain. Scapa Flow, once considered impregnable, was subsequently reinforced with

@WFASouthScot Thanks a lot Alan! Great talk and as I always say “All roads lead to Perth Academy”, in this case a connection with @univofstandrews as well. The biography is of James Mechie, link ⬇️ to his @CWGC For Evermore story. #PARemembers https://t.co/NgH2nReFOA

Battle of Loos - 13 Oct 1915 A remarkable picture of the British assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt by the 46th (North Midland) Division. The attacking infantry can be seen amongst clouds of gas & artillery fire. It was the last major British action of the battle. IWM Q29002

Méteren, France - 13 Oct 1914 Race to the Sea. Captain Bernard Montgomery; 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment; is shot through the lung by a German sniper. Medical orderlies begin to dig his grave. But Monty will recover to lead the Allied armies at Normandy in 1944.

Düsseldorf - 8 Oct 1914 Flt Lt. Reggie Marix (Royal Naval Air Service), took-off near Antwerp in a Sopwith Tabloid & bombed the Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf from 700 feet - destroying both the shed & Zeppelin Z IX. It was the first successful British air attack on Germany.

Kathleen Cambridge had known and worked alongside Edith Cavell in Belgium before the war. In August 1914 she was at Maisieres and tended German and British wounded following the fighting around Mons. Kathleen Cambridge - A British Nurse at Mons

12 Oct 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell shot. Guilty of treason for aiding 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Had deep Christian faith. On night b4 died, said, ‘Standing as I do in view of God & eternity .. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone'

On my way to Edinburgh from Inverkeithing for the @WFASouthScot talk on the Royal Naval Division in #WW1. Jellicoe Express plaque at Inverkeithing station.

NEXT BRANCH MEETING Sunday 12th October 2025 (2pm). Location: Scots Guards Club, 1st Floor, 2 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR. Speaker: Dr Andrew Jeffrey Subject: "Sea Soldiers - The Royal Naval Division at War". Visitors are welcome. Suggested donation £5.00. IWM PST 5889

Our chairman (& genealogist), Ken Nisbet, visited Leith Community Health Centre this week - & noticed a memorial to a casualty in the Royal Naval Division. Unlike the service records of many British soldiers in WW1, Ken reminds us that the records of RND servicemen have survived.

If anyone is interested in the location, it's been identified as Bruges by our friend Mark Hayes. Ratings of the hastily formed Royal Naval Division in 1914 - but the scene is timeless, it could almost be Wellington's troops in 1815! https://t.co/1Kbl5610C7

Attended a number of excellent @WFASouthScot talks & really looking forward to this one as one of our Perth Academy FPs served with the RND. Link ⬇️ to his @CWGC For Evermore story. https://t.co/8Dij4xCKIB Come along if you can, just across the road from Haymarket Station.

NEXT BRANCH MEETING Sunday 12th October 2025 at 2pm Location: Scots Guards Club, 1st Floor, 2 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR. Speaker: Dr Andrew Jeffrey Subject: "Sea Soldiers - The Royal Naval Division at War" Visitors are welcome. (Suggested donation £5.00). Q109127

Royal Naval Division - Battle of Arras, Apr 1917. Ratings from the division are depicted defending the line at Gavrelle from a determined counter-attack by Bavarian troops. Over 40% of Royal Navy casualties in the Great War were suffered by the RND. (Image: Amédée Forestier)

Royal Naval Division - Gallipoli, Spring 1915. The Machine-Gun Section of the Anson Battalion show off an eclectic collection of headwear for the camera. During the campaign: the 16, 000 men of the Division suffered 133 officers & 2358 ratings killed or missing. IWM Q109203