When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th 1914, tens of thousands of Scottish men quickly volunteered to join the British Army. In this article we'll look at why so many Scots volunteered ...

It is estimated that one third of these are Scots. The cottish poet, Charles Hamilton Sorley lost his life at Loos, as did John Kipling, the son of the author Rudyard Kipling. The historian Trevor ...