“Unimaginable. A calamity, a catastrophe so devastating, they presumed that there could surely be nothing greater and they christened it the Great War. In which the stakes became so great, that the medals given to Empire troops, described it as the ‘Great War for Civilisation’ because civilisation was itself at stake.”
This was how Rev. Michael Scouler MBE described the First World War in his address at the Royal British Legion Scotland (RBLS) Hawick branch Drumhead Service to commemorate the Armistice of 1918 in the Common Haugh on Sunday afternoon.
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