Here They Have Been Loosely Grouped to Assist General Browsing

Perth and Kinross Remembers

First World War resources in Perth and Kinross Archive

This is a list of suggested resources from the Archive which might assist in any research related to the First World War. These resources are already available to browse as an online searchable database https://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/4655/World-War-One-sources

Here they have been loosely grouped to assist general browsing. The headings are: people, if someone is part of a named collection; rolls of honour; albums, photographs, postcards and cartoons; women at war, if the records refer in any way to women’s war work; church; towns and villages, if places feature in the collection name and finally, organisations. This last group also includes Perth and Kinross Town council references. Some of the references feature twice if they are relevant to more than one group.

The resources listed below can all be found on the Perth and Kinross Archive online catalogue. https://www.culturepk.org.uk/archive-local-family-history/archive-online-catalogue/

People

Reference MS14/146/1 Collection Miscellaneous Deposits Date(s) 1918

Description Army discharge book of James Black, Army Veterinary Corps.

Reference MS14/146/2 Collection Miscellaneous Deposits Date(s) 1918

Description Treatment card of James Black, Belmont Hospital Liverpool.

Reference MS14/146/3 Collection Miscellaneous Deposits Date(s) 1918

Description Employment card for soldiers discharged medically unfit in the name of James Black. Organisations

Reference MS35/Bundles3-10 Collection Papers of Major-General Sir William Rycroft Date(s) 1915- 1923

Description Letters to and from Sir William on various aspects of the War in France, the Dardanelles, the Middle East, Salonica, and the situation on other fronts including letters from General Allenby and General Smith-Dorrien. Also letters, notes and essays on the Caucasian problem 1919-1921 from Rycroft as Major-General British Army of the Black Sea. Includes essays on boar hunting in Salonica and sport in Macedonia with the British Salonica Force, 1917-1918

Reference MS111/Bundle4 Collection Stanley Nairne papers Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Nairne was a conscious objector who was greatly concerned with the YMCA and Boys Clubs. Bundle of letters to Nairne from school friends, ex Scottish Schoolboys Camps boys and others serving with the Forces from military camps in the U K, German East Africa and France, 1915¬1918, describing conditions there. Also letter from prisoner of war in Germany, pacifist letter from the Rev Symington, Glasgow and Christmas card from YMCA to those rendering service to the YMCA in France. Also circular letter from VJ Spiganovijcz on proposed summer camp scheme to make articles for the troops at the front, Harrietsfield House, Ancrum,14 July 1915 and photograph of the Glasgow University Officers Training Corps Rugby Club, 1917

Reference MS111/Bundle5 Collection Stanley Nairne papers Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Letters of support and sympathy from serving soldiers concerning Nairne’s stance as a Conscientious Objector and subsequent compulsory employment in forestry. Also contains a few letters of criticism. Draft appeals Nos 1 and 2 to Central Tribunal, Edinburgh by Stanley Nairne's employers, 1917. Draft statement to Tribunal re his reasons for refusing combatant service, 1917

Reference MS111/Bundle9 Collection Stanley Nairne Papers Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Letters from Sandy Somerville of the Seaforth Highlanders from the U.K and France 1914-1918 about the War, the YMCA and old school matters.

Reference MS146/8 Collection Thomas McLaren Papers Date(s) 1928

Description Pamphlets etc. relating to the restoration of St. John's Church, Perth and incorporation of a war memorial and chapel to those who gave their lives in the Great War in Perth and Perthshire

Reference MS305 Collection Samuel Black Watson Date(s) 1913-1918

Description Letters written by Watson who had enlisted in 1909 aged 17 and re-joined in 1912. When war broke out he was promoted first to Corporal then Sergeant. At Gallipoli in early 1915, he was invalided out suffering from dysentery and enteric fever. On recovery, he was transferred and seconded several times until his discharge in 1919.

Reference MS322 Collection James Miller snr and jnr, Comrie, papers Date(s) 1852-c1985 Description James Miller snr, diary recording his troopship voyage to South Africa in 1916 en-route to India.

Reference MS323/1-4 Collection Veitch family papers, Pitlochry Date(s) 1915-1933

Description Letters written by John Alex Veitch during training and service in France, with letters, telegrams and postcards relating to the his death. Also items, photographs and letters returned to the family after his death and photographs, correspondence and programmes concerning memorials for John Alex and others, including material relating to the family's visit to France

Reference MS60/6 Collection Major Peter Drummond-Hay, Map and Plan Date(s) 1804-1916 Description Map of ' The German Scheme of Mittel Europa', 1916.

Rolls of Honour

Reference MS14/238 Collection Miscellaneous

Deposits: Roll of Honour: Parish of Tibbermore, Hillyland, Tulloch and Burghmuir, 1914-1919 Date(s) 1920

Reference MS51/5/5/17 Collection Pullars Ltd., Perth Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Roll of Honour of nearly 500 employees who served in the war, and 61 who died, in a souvenir folder

Albums, photographs, postcards, cartoons

Reference MS14/2 Collection Miscellaneous Deposits Date(s) c.1917-1918

Description Lampoon of the Will of Kaiser Wilhelm disposing of his assets and territory in Europe signed 'Baron von Sauerkraut and Graf von Munchlagerbier'.

Reference MS14/65/7 Collection Miscellaneous Deposits Date(s) 21 May 1917 Description Photocopy of post card from prisoner of war Sgt. J Shepherd acknowledging receipt of two parcels.

Reference MS14/85/8 Collection Miscellaneous Deposits Date(s) c.1916 Description Photograph of nursing staff outside Ardblair Castle during WW1

Description Booklet, being a "Souvenir of the Great European War, 4th August, 1914 to 28th June, 1919"

Women at war

Reference MS46/1/2-3 Collection Railway Clerks Association, Perth Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Minutes including references to the numbers of members in the Association and the numbers serving with the Forces and sending Christmas parcels to them. Also references to 14,000 women clerks employed countrywide compared to 2,000 pre-war and queries their future after the war.

Reference MS152/5/1/4- 5 Collection Crieff Unionist Club Date(s) 1915-1918

Description Minutes, includes reference to use of Club for a Sergeant's Mess for 2/6 Battalion Seaforth Highlanders billeted in the town 1915-1916. Also mentions numbers of members serving in the Forces, casualties and members decorated. List of serving names given, 1915. Also war work of the Club including use of the reading room and billiard room by troops, and despatch of parcels to serving soldiers and sailors by the Ladies Work Party.

Reference MS152/15/1/2 Collection Perth City and County Conservative Club Date(s) 1910-1939

Description Minutes including use of Club rooms by soldiers billeted in Perth and Scone for recreation, reading and refreshments, and also for various Patriotic Fund-raising functions, packing food parcels for prisoners of war, entertaining wounded soldiers etc.

Reference MS172/1/3 Collection The Gaelic Society of Perth Date(s) 1913-1928

Description Minute book with sundry references to war work by the Society including flag days and comforts given to wounded soldiers in Perth hospitals by the Women's Committee, particularly to Highland soldiers.

Reference MS245/1/3 Collection Nan Ferguson, Whitefield, Coupar Angus Date(s) 1915-1919

Description Album containing photographs of nurses and patients at the Red Cross Hospital, York Place, Perth; Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh and the 62nd General Hospital at the Hotel Angst, Bordighera, Italy.

Reference MS264 Collection Voluntary Aid Detachment Date(s) 1915-1919

Description War service record book detailing female volunteers and the Red Cross Hospitals in which they worked. Only four pages with entries

Reference MS320 Collection VAD album, Aberfeldy Date(s) 1915-1918

Description Album containing annotated photographs, sketches and letters of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital at Aberfeldy, featuring the progress of Belgian patients, particularly Louis Leclerq

Church

Reference MS146/8 Collection Thomas McLaren Papers Date(s) 1928

Reference PE1/15/1 Collection Tibbermore Parish Church Date(s) 1918 Description Response to circular from Perth County Council on training of discharged soldiers and sailors in rural occupations.

Towns and Villages

Aberfeldy

Reference AN/1/1/4 Collection Burgh of Aberfeldy Town Council Date(s) 1901-1920

Description Minutes with references to Flag Days and other fund-raising activities and composition of the committees set up to supervise War Savings, National Registration Act, Recruiting Tribunal, War Bonuses, collection of salvage and wastepaper, food control etc. Also deliberations of a committee formed to consider a War Memorial.

Reference MS320 Collection VAD album, Aberfeldy Date(s) 1915-1918

Description Album containing annotated photographs, sketches and letters of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital at Aberfeldy, featuring the progress of Belgian patients, particularly Louis Leclerq

Alyth

Reference AL/1/1/6 Collection Burgh of Alyth Town Clerk Date(s) 1913-1923

Description Minutes of War Charities and Flag Days for Belgian Refugees and others, and formation of committees to administer the National Registration Act, War Savings, and War Charities Registration. Appointment of Recruiting Tribunals. Support for dependants of soldiers killed in the war, Prince of Wales Relief Fund for the relief of distress during the war, and funds for comforts for road and quarrying companies in France. Red Cross flags to be put out on civilian hospitals in event of hostile landings, and Town Hall insurance against Aircraft risks. Use of the Town Hall by the military and sanitary arrangements for same. War Trophies committee to decide on the siting of a captured German gun and gun carriage.

Reference AL/Files/2 Collection Burgh of Alyth, Inspector of the Poor Date(s) 1914-1928

Description Leaflet and correspondence pertaining to Belgian Refugees in Scotland 1916-1917 including list of subscriptions from all the towns and burghs in Scotland. Correspondence on the Prince of Wales National Fund for the Relief of Distress.

Ardler

Reference MS321 Collection WW1 Ardler Date(s) 1914-c1920

Description Framed and hand painted Ardler Service roll, with postcard photographs of service personnel, some identified and a few with messages or addresses, including framed photograph of nurse, possibly LH Carmichael

Reference MS23/9/1/4 Collection Burrelton and Woodside Literary Society Date(s) 1913-1920

Description Minute Book with references made to collections made on behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund, also for parcels for soldiers and for the British Red Cross Society, from concerts etc., and details of a Grand Supper and Dance given to returned soldiers 23 December 1919

Auchterarder

Reference AA/1/1/4-5 Collection Burgh of Auchterarder Town Clerk's Dept. Date(s) 1911-1918

Description Minutes of War Charity collections including H.R.H. Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund, Montenegrin Relief Fund, Russia Day and others. Arrangements for local employment and accommodation for Belgian Refugees. Use of Muir Quarry as a rifle range and arrangements for Military to take over Aytoun Hall. Local Recruiting Tribunal formed under the Military Service Act 1916; also committee to administer the National Registration Act and a War Savings Committee and Local Food Control Committee, and early closing of shops during the War. Petition to the Army Council for separation allowances to dependants of soldiers who were apprentices. Petition to Parliament to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors during the War. Reconstitution of Auchterarder Town Band and recovery of instruments lent to the Military.

Reference AA/1/2/8-9 Collection Burgh of Auchterarder Town Clerk's Dept., Date(s) 1913-1921 Description References to lettings of Aytoun Hall for War Charity purposes; use of Muir Quarry for a rifle range by the Volunteers. Also to trenches dug in the Public Park by the Military Authorities, and aircraft insurance taken out on Aytoun Hall and Girnal House. Investment of £1OOO in War Bonds.

Reference AA/1/2/8-9 Collection Burgh of Auchterarder Town Clerk's Dept., Date(s) 1913-1921

Description Deals with the separation allowances for dependants of serving men, payment of War Bonuses, setting up of War Savings Association and purchase of band instruments. Also a Public Meeting to discuss a War Memorial including a list of prominent people invited to meet the Council.

Reference AA/1/2/8-9 Collection Burgh of Auchterarder Town Clerk's Dept., Date(s) 1913-1921 Description Charges made to the Military for watering horses.

Reference AA/1/9/2 Collection Auchterarder Institute Date(s) 1915-1918

Description Committee Minutes. References to the use of the gymnasium as a Sergeants Mess for the 2/5th Seaforth Territorials. Honorary members admitted to include all soldiers in uniform and soldiers in convalescent homes to get free billiards from 10am to 4pm. Claim to the Military Authorities for repairing damage caused by them.

Reference AA/Bundle7 Collection Burgh of Auchterarder Papers Date(s) 1904-1942

Description Contains a copy of the Retail Coal Prices Order 1917 and a copy of a Notice of a Public Meeting to reconstitute the Town Band and recover instruments lent to the Military.

Balbeggie

Reference MS201/Bundle9 Collection John Gwynn Papers for ‘History of Balbeggie’ Date(s) 1763- 2001 Description Miscellaneous documents relating to WW1 in Balbeggie District of Perthshire, including: three photographs of the War Memorial at St. Martin's with names of those killed; post card size copy of poster for recruiting women fruit pickers; copy photograph of Balbeggie Platoon, Perthshire Volunteers 1918 with Lieutenant Scott; copy photograph of Balbeggie ladies gathering sphagnum moss

Blairgowrie

Reference BR/1/1/14 Collection Burgh of Blairgowrie & Rattray, Blairgowrie Date(s) 1912-1920

Description Minutes of many references to Collections & Flag Days for France, Montenegrin Relief Fund, Belgian Refugees etc. and regulations under the War Charities Act. References to Committees formed for War Savings, Local Recruiting, National Act, and Food Controls. Resolutions and petitions to Government re acquisition of land for employment of maimed servicemen in smallholdings after the War, and for increasing the separation allowances of serving apprentices to dependants. Text of letter from Brigadier 192 Infantry Brigade thanking Blairgowrie for what they did for the troops during their stay there. Note of special service of intercession for members of the Forces attended by the Town Council. References to the placement of recruiting posters and military wagons on the Wellmeadow and arrangements for the visit of a tank to Blairgowrie during Tank Week. Coal rationing scheme and details of fixed prices for same. War Trophies. Acceptance of German M/G (damaged), ammunition box and belt; also captured German rifles to be presented to meritorious War Savings Associations Joint committee formed with Rattray. References to erecting a War Memorial on the Wellmeadow. Comrie

Reference MS322 Collection James Miller snr and jnr, Comrie, papers Date(s) 1852-c1985 Description James Miller snr, diary recording his troopship voyage to South Africa in 1916 en-route to India

Coupar Angus

Reference CA/1/1/5 Collection Coupar Angus Town Council Date(s) 1912-1918

Description Minutes containing many references to Flag Days, Concerts, etc. for wartime relief activities. Committees formed to administer the Military Service Act, War Savings, War Charities, Food and Coal Control, and National Salvage. Message of condolence from the Council to the parents of Lt AGM Younger of Hallyburton, killed in action in 1914. Billeting of troops in the local school over winter, and use of the recreation room for games for the troops including billiards, and terms of payment by the Military for use of the Town Hall for training volunteers in 1917.Town employees joining the Army to have their Army pay made up to their wages. Details of war loans taken out. Public meetings held in connection with the recruitment of National Service Volunteers, and to discuss a War Anniversary Service to be held on the 4th August 1917. Arrangements for War Weapons week and for Dundee Tank Week in1918 and arrangements to print War Memorial Cards to send to relatives of the fallen.

Coupar

Reference CA/1/1/6 Collection Coupar Town Council Date(s) 1918-1925

Description Minutes dealing with War Trophies. Acceptance of a German howitzer and a machine gun and ammunition and belt, 1919. Formation of a Peace celebrations committee and arrangements for entertainment and hospitality to returning soldiers. Committee formed to discuss a War Memorial and to raise money for the National War Memorial in Edinburgh.

Crieff

Reference CR/1/1/9 Collection Crieff Town Council Date(s) 1914

Description Minutes containing a resolution proposed by the Town Clerk, Glasgow as to pensions for dependants of members of the Forces killed or maimed in the War, is agreed to and proposed and recorded.

Reference CR/1/1/10 Collection Crieff Town Council Date(s) 1915

Description Minutes containing a Resolution to the Government to regulate the price of foodstuffs during the War. Sundry Councillors and employees given leave of absence to join up. List of Council employees entitled to War Bonuses and amounts of same, and increases in 1916 and 1917 and following. Circular from Scottish Office on use of certain flags in case of bombardment. Meeting to increase membership of Crieff Volunteer Training Corps. Committees for National Registration Act, National Service Act, War Savings, Appeal Tribunal set up. Use of the Knock as a Military training area. Resolution passed to urge the people of Crieff not to ply soldiers with alcoholic liquor particularly during Christmas and New Year.

Reference CR/1/1/11 Collection Crieff Town Council Date(s) 1916

Description Minutes containing a Resolution to collect wastepaper et seq. Mention of circular on how to deal with Army deserters. War anniversary service to be held on 4.8.1916, and closure of places of business for this. Note of Meritorious Service Medal awarded to the Burgh Surveyor.

Reference CR/1/1/12 Collection Crieff Town Council Date(s) 1917

Description Minutes including details of the purchase of War stock by the Council. Council agrees to release of employees who were previously land workers for work on farms. Flag days granted for Princess Louise Scottish Hospital, Y.M. C. A., Life Boats and a concert for the Red Cross. Early closing of shops Act and Inspector appointed to enforce this and also the Food Control Act under the Food Control Committee. Government Circular on provision of housing for working classes after the War.

Reference CR/1/1/13 Collection Crieff Town Council Date(s) 1918

Description Minutes including references to Flag Days for Italian Red Cross, Salvation Army, Scottish Veterans Garden City Association, Ambulances for British Women's Temperance Association, and "Crieff bed" at Scottish Women's Hospital, France. British and Foreign Sailor's Soc., appeal. War Certificates week. References to National kitchens in Crieff, and rationing of house coal. Arrangements for the visit of Julian the tank to Crieff to stimulate War Savings. Appointment of a War Memorial Committee-details of members etc. and compilation of a Roll of Honour. Concert for discharged soldiers and sailors to be arranged. Note re V. C. medallist Lt Wm. Bisset to be publicly honoured.

Reference CR/1/1/15 Collection Crieff Town Council Date(s) 1919

Description Minutes including details of War Trophies offered to Crieff, and references to a circular from the Scottish Office regarding peace celebrations and to one from the Ministry of Labour on employment of discharged soldiers.

Reference CR/5/4/1 Collection Crieff Town Council, Food Committee Date(s) 1918-1920

Description Letter Book. A vast number of copy letters from the Executive Officer of the Food Committee, Crieff, on a wide variety of matters relating to food rationing, temporary visitors ration cards and wholesale and retail supplies and distribution.

Reference CR/5/5/1 Collection Crieff Burgh Council Date(s) 1914-1921

Description Roll of Honour. Comprehensive listing in a bound volume of all members of the Forces who died on active service. Includes details of service, regiment, next of kin, etc. Also contains a copy of the unveiling of the War Memorial at Crieff, 1921, and subscription leaflet for the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh.

Reference CR/5/5/2 Collection Crieff Burgh Council Miscellanea Date(s) 1919 Description First World War Commemoration: Peace celebrations committee minutes

Reference CR/Papers/Bundle9 Collection Crieff Town Council Date(s) 1915-1918

Description Papers. Contains copies of the Board of Trade poster urging the public to restrict the consumption of meat. Copy of a Board of Trade notice requesting the public to economise in meat due to demands of the War on supplies 1915. Copy of Notice regarding the Fuel & Lighting (Scotland) Order, 1918. Kinross

Reference KR/1/2 Collection Burgh of Kinross, Town Clerk's Dept. Date(s) 1914

Description Minutes with details of collections authorised for HRH Prince of Wales National Fund for Relief of Distress, and names and districts of collectors. List of Special Constables sworn in during 1914 and following years, and comprehensive list of duties in event of a German invasion.

Reference KR/1/2 Collection Burgh of Kinross Town Clerk's Dept. Date(s) 1915

Description Minutes including references to helping Edinburgh to raise a "Bantam Battalion". Texts of lengthy correspondence to and from Colonel Rattray with reference to supplying water and drainage to the Army Camp at Kinross. Authorised collection for the Montenegrin Relief Fund. Administration of the National Registration Act, 1915.

Reference KR/1/2 Collection Burgh of Kinross, Town Clerk's Dept. Date(s) 1916

Description Minutes. Presentation to be arranged for Dr. Murdoch on his return from active service for receiving the Military Cross. Recommendations for allowances for apprentices serving in the War. Central Committee for War Savings, list of members and districts for collection.

Reference KR/1/2 Collection Burgh of Kinross, Town Clerk's Dept. Date(s) 1917

Description Minutes including references to the administration of War Charities Act. Food Control Committee formed, and Food Controller appointed, and recommendations made to control all food cooked for soldiers to avoid wastage, and to prevent any foodstuffs to be used for brewing or distilling until after the War. Coal prices fixed and listed in detail.

Reference KR/1/2 Collection Burgh of Kinross, Town Clerk's Dept. Date(s) 1918

Description Minutes containing a Resolution passed on the deaths of the Provost's son and Senior Baillie Beveridge in action. Arrangements with the County for a tank tour to raise money for the War. References to the formation of a National Kitchen, and also to a scheme to provide housing for the working classes after the War. Text of a resolution from the Provost on the end of the War.

Reference KR/1/2 Collection Burgh of Kinross, Town Clerk's Dept. Date(s) 1919

Description Minutes. Description of War Trophies. Arrival of three German guns. Details of a Peace Committee formed, and formation of a Committee to discuss a suitable War Memorial at the County Buildings.

Reference KR/1/2/1 Collection Burgh of Kinross, Town and Parish Library Date(s) 1903-1919 Description Minutes containing sundry references to the use of the recreation room by the Military.

Reference KR/1/6/5 Collection Kinross Burgh Date(s) 1914-1916

Description Letter Book containing copies of War time correspondence of the Town Clerk's Dept. including letters relating to the Prince of Wales Relief Fund and a Scottish National Flag Day Concert. Correspondence relating to the public funeral of Private Allan, wounded in France and subsequently died, and attendance of the Provost, Magistrates and Council. Correspondence on the National Registration Act, including the text of a public announcement. Work of the Local Recruiting Committee and Military Appeal Tribunal, including lists of names deferments, etc. Correspondence on a water supply to Kinross hutted camp.

Reference KR/1/6/6 Collection Kinross Burgh Date(s) 1916-1919

Description Letter Book containing much copy correspondence relating to Military Tribunal Appeals. Also correspondence on Scottish War Savings Committee, National Registration Act, Food Economy Campaign, and on the visit of a tank to raise money for War Savings. Correspondence on Government Orders and Acts including the Price of Coal Order. Correspondence relating to erection of a War Memorial, donations etc., and a note of the resolution taken at a Public Meeting for a War Memorial.

Reference KR/1/6/7 Collection Kinross Burgh Date(s) 1919-1921

Description Letter Book containing copy correspondence relating to German guns as War Trophies. Collections for and matters relating to erecting a War Memorial, Peace celebrations etc.

Reference CC2/3/1/2 Collection Kinross County Council Date(s) 1913-1930

Description Minute book with references to local committees and tribunals to administer a recruiting scheme for the Army; the Military Service Act 1916; Government Food Control Scheme; Naval & Army Pensions including constitution and membership of these committees. Also refers to billeting of the Military in Milnathort Mill over the winter; permissions for flag days and relief collections. References to a committee established to consider a suitable War Memorial for Borough and County, and the siting of German guns as war booty.

Methven

Reference CC1/7/30/5 Collection Methven Parochial Board/Parish Council Date(s) 1919-1920 Description Minute book of war memorial committee

Perth and Kinross

Reference CC1/3/5/47 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1914-1915

Description Letter Books. Includes copy letters to the Secretary of State for Scotland and others asking advice on what is to be done in the event of invasion regarding the civil population, branding and removal of animal stock rendering it unfit for human consumption etc

Reference CC1/3/5/48 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1915

Description Letter Books. Containing copy correspondence with the Secretary of State on the National Registration Act, and copy letters on arrangements for implementing the Act. Copy letters to Brigadier Scottish Horse requesting the release of Dr. Bruce from Military Service to take over his duties at Murthly Lunatic Asylum. Also letters on the refusal of a Military request for the use of Murthly Asylum for billeting troops.

Reference CC1/3/5/49 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1915-1916

Description Letter Books. Containing much copy correspondence on the National Registration Act, arrangements for appeals etc. Also on the release of Dr. Bruce and the use of Murthly Asylum for troops. Correspondence on the constitution of Perth Local Emergency Committee and recruiting Committee Tribunals. Letters regarding exemptions from the Military Service Act.

Reference CC1/3/5/50 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1916 Description Letter Books. Contains correspondence on the applications for exemption from Military Service. Copy correspondence on the affairs of the local Commission for Perth for the Naval & Military War Pensions Act, 1915. List of men registered under the Military Service Act in Perthshire. Changes in names of the Military Tribunal members given. Copy letters on employment of women in agriculture, (Perth Women's Patriotic Committee), and sundry correspondence on the insurance of Public Buildings against attack by aircraft. Copy correspondence on setting up a County War Savings Committee.

Reference CC1/3/5/51 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1916-1917

Description Letter Books. Contains correspondence dealing with the Constitution of the Emergency Committee of the County in the event of German invasion. Letters giving permission for fund raising for various Charities in accordance with the War Charities Act, 1916. Naval & War Pensions Committee; letters on the administration of same. Arrangements for dealing with discharged lunatic soldiers and sailors; assignment to Murthly Asylum.

Reference CC1/3/5/52 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1917 Description Letter Books. War Charities Act includes letters to charities giving permission to fund raise. Correspondence on War Loan matters. Letters on taking over Murthly Asylum as a War Hospital. Correspondence on recruiting for National Service; arrangements for recruiting, setting up of local committees in the Parishes etc.

Reference CC1/3/5/53 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1917

Description Letter Books. Contains much correspondence on War Pensions, National Service, the Food Economy Campaign and food control. Correspondence pertaining to the War Charities act and War Pensions Committee. Correspondence on the Local Tribunals, Military Service Act, and a record of West Perthshire members appointed, and applications for exemption. Correspondence on the Retail Coal Prices Order.

Reference CC1/3/5/54 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1917-1918

Description Letter Books. Contains copy correspondence on the War Charities Act and on the training of discharged and disabled soldiers and sailors in rural occupations, November 1917. Copy correspondence on the constitution of the Naval & War Pensions Committee, the use of Blackford Brewery for storing hay for the Army, and on the Tank Fund Raising Campaign in Dundee, and the participation of the Burghs in this, January 1918. Sundry correspondence on the National Registration Acts, and on coal rationing. Also on the constitution of the Central Organising Committee to deal with the civil population in the event of invasion, March 1918.

Reference CC1/3/5/55 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1918-1919

Description Letter Books. Copy correspondence on the War Charities Act and the National Registration Act, and the Rationing of Coal Order. January 1919. Copy letters on the training of discharged soldiers and sailors. Letter on the appointment of the Duke of Atholl as committee representative on the General Committee for Scottish War Memorials.

Reference CC1/3/5/56 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1919

Description Letter Books. March. Includes a copy letter on the disposal of the balance of the money in War Charities for the entertainment of returning troops.

Reference CC1/3/5/57 Collection Perth & Kinross County Date(s) 1919 Description Letter Books. Includes a copy letter to the Lord Lyon King of Arms regarding the use of Perth County Coat of Arms on Parish War Memorials, September.

Pitlochry

Reference MS323/1-4 Collection Veitch family papers, Pitlochry Date(s) 1915-1933

Description Letters written by John Alex Veitch during training and service in France, with letters, telegrams and postcards relating to his death. Also, items, photographs and letters returned to the family after his death and photographs, correspondence and programmes concerning memorials for John Alex and others, including material relating to the family's visit to France

Rattray

Reference BR/1/1/4 Collection Rattray Town Council Date(s) 1911-1919

Description Minutes containing references to Flag Days for a variety of Wartime Charities registered under the War Charities Act. Local Tribunals and Committees formed to supervise War Savings. Military Service Act, coal prices, food prices, and Tank Day, sometimes jointly with Blairgowrie Town Council. Committee formed with Blairgowrie to act regarding raising money for an "implement of War". Petition to Government re increased allowances to dependants of apprentices at the War. Release of men from local authorities for farm work. Council agrees acceptance of a German machine gun as a war souvenir and the formation of a joint committee with Blairgowrie to celebrate Peace.

Tibbermore

Reference PE1/15/1 Collection Tibbermore Parish Church Date(s) 1918

Description Response to circular from Perth County Council on training of discharged soldiers and sailors in rural occupations.

Reference CC1/5/13-95 Collection Perth & Kinross County School Boards Date(s) 1914- 1919

Description Minutes with references and correspondence relating to the contribution of schools and schoolchildren in Perthshire to the War Effort. Matters dealt with include billeting of troops in schools and alternative arrangements made for children; claims made for damages incurred; instructional classes for troops and Army cooks; insurance against damage from aircraft; children's Flag Days for Belgian refugees and other causes; making of garments for wounded soldiers in Red Cross Hospitals and for Belgian refugees; horse chestnut and waste paper collections; John Cornwall V C Memorial Fund 1916; deferment of teachers for Military Service; payment of War Bonuses to staff; army separation allowances to children of serving soldiers, etc. The following schools are cited :-Aberdalgie, Abernyte, Amulree, Ardoch, Arngask, Auchtergaven, Ballintuin, Bendochy, Blackford, Blair Atholl, Blairgowrie, Caputh, Cargill, Carnbo, Clunie, Collace, Dron, Dull, Dunbarney, Gask/ Findo Gask, Forgandenny, Forteviot, Fossoway, Fowlis Wester,Glendevon, Inchture, Innerwick, Kilspindie, Kinclaven, Kinfauns, Kinloch Rannoch, Kinnaird, Kinnoull, Kirkmichael, Lethendy & Kinloch, Logiealmond & Monzie, Logierait, Longforgan, Meigle, Methven, Monzievaird & Strowan, Moulin, Muckhart, Muthill, Orwell, Persie, Rattray, Rhynd, Redgorton, Scone, Stanley, St. Madoes, St. Martins, Tenandry, Tibbermore, Trinity Gask, Weem, Alyth Episcopal School.

Organisations

Reference MS40/1/3-4 Collection Perth Typographical Society Date(s) 1908-1923

Description Minute books include resolution to the Government requesting that they take over control of shipping and transport of essential supplies and fix prices of same, 1915. Also payment of War Bonuses and notice of re-employment of discharged servicemen, 1916-1918

Reference MS41/1/3 Collection Perth Trades and Labour Council Date(s) 1912-1920

Description Minutes including resolution to the government requesting control of shipping and food prices, 1915. Motion passed requesting withdrawal of military service, 1916. Sundry references to trade union matters, strikes, wage increases, and employment of female labour due to war conditions

Reference MS44/1/1 Collection Perth Branch, Bakers and Allied Workers Date(s) 1897-1935

Description Minutes including general matters regarding prices and wage increases, representations to Government regarding high prices of raw materials and numbers of members serving with the colours.

Reference MS45/1/2-3 Collection Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers Date(s) 1907-1918

Description Minutes including references to wartime conditions, wage increases, high cost of food and raw materials, and letters of protest sent on building of portable homes in America for Belgium.

Reference MS46/1/2-3 Collection Railway Clerks Association, Perth Date(s) 1914-1918

Reference MS77/1-5 Collection Society of High Constables of Perth Date(s) 1914-1922

Description Minute book with sundry references to activities during the war including assistance at recruiting marches in Perth, fund raising, and contributions to war charities etc.

Reference MS152/5/1/4- 5 Collection Crieff Unionist Club Date(s) 1915-1918

Reference MS152/15/1/2 Collection Perth City and County Conservative Club Date(s) 1910-1939

Description Minutes including use of Club rooms by soldiers billeted in Perth and Scone for recreation, reading and refreshments, and also for various Patriotic Fund raising functions, packing food parcels for prisoners of war, entertaining wounded soldiers etc.

Reference MS172/1/3 Collection The Gaelic Society of Perth Date(s) 1913-1928

Reference MS193/2/1 Collection Perth & District Branch NFU. Minutes Date(s) 1916-1922

Description Minutes contains references to use of soldiers and German prisoners as agricultural labour and soldiers for coast defence purposes Perth Town Council

Reference PE1/1/38 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) August 1914 and subsequent dates

Description Minutes including council employees called up for military service to have their full wages paid less deduction of army pay. Motion to ask Government to grant a minimum pension of £1 to needy dependants of servicemen.

Reference PE1/1/38 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) August 1914 and subsequent dates

Description Burial ground & Inches committee minutes including request from OC Highland District to obtain the use of both Inches for drilling purposes is approved. Also use of the North Inch for recruiting assemblies and drilling by the Citizen's Organization is approved.

Reference PE1/1/38 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) October 1914 and subsequent dates

Description Minutes including council permission given for the use of the City Hall for concerts for Belgian Relief Fund, Red Cross and other war charities. Also for Christmas Day entertainment for soldiers serving in Perth in 1914.

Reference PE/1/1/38 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) November 1914

Description Local Pension Committee appointed to deal with claims from relatives for separation allowances.

Reference PE1/1/38 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1914

Description Minutes including creation of a force of 60 Special Constables for security duties during the War.

Reference PE1/1/38 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1914 and subsequent years

Description Baths & Wash House Committee Minutes with various references to the use of Council Baths by soldiers billeted in Perth either at reduced prices or free of charge.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) January 1915

Description Minute with mention made of letter of thanks from wounded Belgian soldiers in Perth for comforts provided.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) January 1915

Description Minute with reference to letter from Lord Tullibardine regarding the conduct of the Scottish Horse camped at Scone

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1915 and subsequent years Description Minute for flag days and street collections. Council permission for various organizations to hold these for war charities

ReferencePE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) May 1915

Description Minutes including sanction given to Mrs Dewar to give a Free Gift Sale for war funds.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) July 1915

Description Minute showing council to attend a religious service at the Mercat Cross for the anniversary of the outbreak of the War.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) July 1915

Description Minutes with reference to Council employees permitted to volunteer as munitions workers.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) October 1915

Description Minute showing permission granted to the Red Cross to use the Antiquarian Museum Library to store clothing and comforts.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) November 1915

Description Minute showing council appointing Recruiting Committee and a local Appeal Tribunal.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) December 1915

Description Minute recording that a Crest Day is granted for wounded servicemen in Perth and Black Watch service battalions.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) December 1915

Description Minute showing council sanctioning a National Day of Prayer.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1915 and subsequent dates

Description Local Pension Committee Minutes re Naval and Military War Pensions Act 1915. Includes numerous references to the work of this Committee in terms of this Act in determining and administering allowances for dependants of servicemen.

Reference PE1/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1915 and subsequent dates

Description National Registration Committee. Various references in Council minutes to the work of the committee, with financial accounts, fees, and returns to the Registrar General.

Reference PE/1/39 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1915 and subsequent dates

Description References to arrangements for recruiting meetings in various halls in town, and other work.

Reference PE1/1/40 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1915-1916

Description Minutes including numerous references to applications for deferment or exemption from military service for essential personnel employed by the Council.

Reference PE1/1/40 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) January 1916 and subsequent dates Description Burial Grounds Committee Minutes. Council agree to reserve cemetery lairs for soldiers who die in local hospitals and for whom no provision is made.

Reference PE1/1/40 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) May 1916

Description Gas Committee Minutes with references to experiments to use a reduction in gas pressure as an air raid warning.

Reference PE1/1/40 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) April 1916 and subsequent dates Description Property Committee Minutes has arrangements to insure Council property against air raids.

Reference PE1/1/40 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) March 1916 and subsequent dates Description Public Health Committee. Military authorities informed that other arrangements would be required for military infection cases because the Perth isolation hospital was full.

Reference PE1/1/40 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) March 1916 and subsequent dates

Description Contribution of one guinea to Lord Mayor of York`s Fund for damage caused by bombardment and air raids for compensation prior to the introduction of air raid insurance.

Reference PE1/1/40 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) November 1916

Description Work and Paving Committee Request from the Chief Military Engineer of Roads for a list of ex Council employees now serving with the Colours and who were previously engaged in road works; they might be used for road building work in France. Also requesting the release of any road making equipment that could be spared. Burgh Surveyor replied with the information accordingly.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) January 1917 and subsequent dates

Description Council takes up war loan of £10,000 under its powers to invest and its recommended disposal to small investors. Further references to war loan subscriptions.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) January 1917 and subsequent dates Description Finance Committee. Payment of war bonuses to employees.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) February 1917 and subsequent dates Description Special sub-committee set up to administer local aspects of the National Service Acts.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) March 1917

Description Magistrates Committee. Special licence granted to give a performance of films and speeches on 1 April in support of the National Service Act.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) April 1917 and subsequent dates

Description Property Committee. Appeal for donations of war relics to the Museum and reference to War Office Committee set up to collect trophies. The Town Clerk was instructed to request a collection for Perth.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) June 1917 and subsequent dates Description Tramways Committee. Use of gas as alternative fuel for motor buses.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) October 1917 Description Property Committee. Application by the Black Watch Band to hold fund raising concerts in the City Hall on Saturday and Wednesday evenings approved.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) November 1917

Description Property Committee. Agreed to let Lesser City Hall to the military authorities for examining recruits.

Reference PE1/1/41 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) December 1917

Description Public Health Committee. Charges for Military personnel in City Isolation Hospital.

Reference PE1/1/42 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1918-1919

Description War Charities Act 1916. Statements of receipts and payments. Applications for registration and exemption - various references.

Reference PE1/1/42 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) February 1918

Description Property Committee. Council agreed to join the Local War Museums Association

Reference PE1/1/42 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) February 1918 and subsequent dates Description Cultivation of Lands Committee formed to implement the Cultivation of Lands [Scotland] Order 1918 for allotments.

Reference PE1/1/42 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) July 1918

Description Gift of Roman remains to Perth Museum by Lieutenant Beaton. Found during trench digging N.E. of Amiens.

Reference PE1/1/42 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) September 1918 and subsequent dates

Description National Kitchens Committee formed to implement the powers conferred by the Ministry of Food to set up a National Kitchen in Perth to save coal.

Reference PE1/1/42 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) November 1918

Description Armistice Day 11 November. Lord Provost`s address to the City Council.

Reference PE1/1/43 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) February 1919

Description Property Committee. Instructed to prepare a suitable Roll of Honour for Perth. A special sub-committee was formed.

Reference PE1/1/43 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) February 1919

Description Damaged German machine gun offered to Perth by the War Office Trophies Committee. Council resolved to ask for a "gun which would be more in keeping with the circumstances of the City".

Reference PE1/1/43 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) July 1919

Description Farewell Concert by the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch on the North Inch.

Reference PE1/1/44 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1920

Description War Trophies. Discussions on various sites in Perth to place gifts of field guns including a battery of Turkish guns and a tank. Reference PE1/20/14 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1910-1919

Description Cemetery Records includes entries of soldiers who died in Perth Hospitals, and were buried locally.

Reference PE1/48/1-8 Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1915-1919

Description National Registration Act 1915. Records of arrivals, registers, correspondence etc.

Reference PE13/2/51-53. Collection Perth Town Council Date(s) 1916-1918

Description Scheme for Constitution of a local Committee to administer the Naval and Military War Pensions Act 1915. Details of number of members, duties, powers etc. Supplementary schemes 1917 and 1918 extend the numbers of members and make up of these.

Reference CC1/6/1/10-14 Collection Perth & Kinross County Council, Perth Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Minutes containing references to local tribunals, use of roadmen in France, employment of disabled soldiers and sailors in agriculture, War Bonuses and increases of wages etc. Also mentions collection of fruit stones and hard nut shells urgently required for the War effort by school children.

Reference PE1/12/1 Collection Perth Licensing Court Date(s) 1914-15

Description Early closing of licensed premises in Perth at the request of the Military Authorities in view of Mobilisation until the troops are removed. Also order made to stop Sunday drinking by civilians in the Barracks Canteen.

Reference PE1/14/2 Collection Perth Parish Council Date(s) 1910-1922

Description Many references to the use of the Poorhouse as accommodation for 75-100 wounded soldiers and use as a War Hospital including details of staff, wages and conditions, modifications needed, equipment etc. Also details of money received to help destitute British born wives and children of aliens, nominations of Parish Councillors to various Wartime Committees, insurance taken out against enemy aircraft and discharged soldiers suffering from Neurasthenics. See also PE1/14/16 Works Committee Minute Book 1906-1930. Much information on conversion of the Poor House to a hospital, alterations required and costs, accounts, maintenance etc.

Reference CC1/3/1/5-6A Collection Perth & Kinross County Council Finance Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Records describe the establishment of sub-committees, and formation of District Committees to administer various Government Acts and Schemes through Town and Parish Councils and Police Boroughs. These include: National Relief Fund; National Registration Act; District Local Recruiting Appeal Tribunals; Naval & Military War Pensions Act (1915); Local Government (Emergency Provision) Act 1916;Military Service Act 1916; Scottish War Savings Committee; War Charities Act 1916; National Service Scheme; Food Control Committees; Workmen's Compensation (War Additions) Act 1917; Board of Agriculture - retraining of disabled soldiers and sailors in rural occupations; Household Fuel & Lighting ( Scotland ) Order 1918. Includes accounts of their activities, members of committees, records of expenses and receipts, claims, exemptions and other business in connection with the operation of the Acts and Schemes through the Finance Committee.

See also CC1/3/1/15 Perth County Council Printed Minutes, 1914¬1919

Reference CC1/3/1/6A Collection Perth & Kinross County Council Finance Date(s) 1917

Description Decision to subscribe to the new Government War Loan and to draw attention of Parish Councils to it. See also CC3/1 /18 Perth County Council Printed Minutes, 1914-1919

Reference CC1/3/1/6A Collection Perth & Kinross County Council Date(s) 1917

Description Finance Committee. Request to hold a Flag Day for Princess Louise's Scottish Hospital for Limbless Soldiers & Sailors. To be organized in Perth & County by the Lord Dean of Guild.

Reference CC1/3/1/6A Collection Perth & Kinross County Council Date(s) 1918

Description Finance Committee. Letter on contributions for extra necessaries and comforts for roadmen in France is referred to the District Committees.

Reference CC1/3/1/6A Collection Perth& Kinross County Council Date(s) 1919

Description Finance Committee. Appointment of Duke of Atholl as representative on the Advisory Committee for Scottish War Memorials.

Reference CC1/3/8/1 Collection Perth & Kinross County Council County Date(s) 1915-1919 Description Letter Book (National Registration). Copy correspondence relating to the registration of numerous individuals under the above Act.

Reference CC1/5/13-95 Collection Perth & Kinross County School Boards Date(s) 1914- 1919

Reference CC1/5/13/26-28 Collection Perth & Kinross County School Boards, Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Minutes with lists of Former Pupils serving with the Forces are given with their units for the following schools in Perth City:- Central School , Kinnoull, Southern District, Caledonian Road, Cherrybank, and St. John's R. C.

Reference CC1/6/2/7F-G Collection Perth & Kinross County Council, Highland Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Minutes with references to: charges made for scavenging military billets and payment of water rates by the military. Requests from Chief Military Engineer, London, to release roadmen and machinery for road construction in France, and request to raise money for comforts for same; war loans and details of sums raised by various districts; implementation of National Food Control Orders, setting up of local recruiting tribunals, deferment and exemption of key workers, petitions for increases of salary and payment of war bonuses; requests for compensation from Ministry of Munitions for damage to roads by transport of timber; employment of disabled soldiers and sailors in agricultural work etc.

Reference CC1/6/2/30-35 Collection Perth & Kinross County Council, Highland Date(s) 1914-1918

Description Numerous copy letters to individuals in connection with above including tribunals, exemption from call up, deferment, War Savings schemes, economy campaigns, etc.

Reference CC1/6/3/26-33 Collection Perth & Kinross County Council, Eastern District Committee Date(s) 1914-1919 Description Letter Books. Copy letters to individuals on Tribunal decisions, applications for exemptions etc.

Reference CC1/6/3/10-11 Collection Perth & Kinross County, Council Eastern Date(s) 1914-1918

Reference CC1/6/4/5 Collection Perth & Kinross County Council, Central Date(s) 1914-1919

Description Minutes with references to local recruiting tribunal, roadmen employed in France, and employment of disabled soldiers and sailors in agriculture only.

Reference CC1/9/1/6 Collection Perth & Kinross County Council, Medical Date(s) 1914-1919

Description Journal with references to visits to Army Camps in Perthshire including Scone, Bridge of Earn, Dunkeld, and Rumbling Bridge, to deal with vermin, disinfection, drainage and sanitary conditions, and cases of notifiable diseases.

Misc.

Reference MS6 G negative plate Collection David Gorrie & Son, Boilermakers & Coppersmiths, 1894- 1955 Date(s) 7 June 1916 Description Negative plate of aeroplane engine pipes for Arrol Johnson.

Reference MS6/P200 Collection David Gorrie & Son, Boilermakers & Coppersmiths, 1894-1955 Date(s) 26 October 1916 Description Plan showing details of shafts and rollers in cast steel, mild steel, and phosphor bronze to War Office requirements.