THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

Mr Robert Waller Scrimgeour, volunteer driver, Friends Ambulance Unit, second son of Mr David Scrimgeour, 10 Richmond Terrace, Dundee, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre with silver star. The French General commanding the Division writes: “Robert Scrimgeour has been in the section since 1915 and has always given proof of the greatest bravery and most entire devotion to the wounded. He has an absolute contempt of danger and carries out his duties in face of shells etc.”

50 years ago

The Rev Dr T. M. Murchison, St Columba’s Church, Summertown, Govan, is to be the next Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He was the bard of the National Mod in 1958 and will be the first Moderator to have held this post. He is the first Gaelic speaking Moderator for 20 years and the first Moderator from an industrial parish in Glasgow for many years. For the past 16 years, Dr Murchison has been responsible for the Gaelic supplement in “Life and Work.”

25 years ago

The area of Perthshire a district nurse is expected to cover at night has been described as “scandalous” by a Blairgowrie GP. Dr Ronald Pyle, of Strathmore surgery, came up against the problem when he requested the assistance of a district nurse in the early hours. He found that the nurse on call was based in Perth and was covering Errol, Inchture, Guildtown, Blairgowrie, Rattray, Glenshee, Coupar Angus, Meigle and Alyth districts. “A vast area and a vast problem,” he commented.