1778 War Recruits
Transcriptions of letters from the Pitcalnie Papers showing that Ross-shire was being targeted by unscrupulous military recruiting parties during the year 1778.
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The Battle of Assaye
A perhaps unique account of the Battle of Assaye written by a Drummer from the 78th Regiment Roderick Innes of Tain.
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Land Raid in Nigg 1922
Land Raids on Nigg Hill after local soldiers demand the government give "land to its defenders."
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Heckie Ross
James Hector Ross or 'Heckie' as he was better known, was born in Tain in 1911 one of a family of eight. He ran a grocery shop on King Street and with his keen business sense and cheery manner soon built up a thriving business.
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He’d to wait 50 years to say thank you.
A nice story from a newspaper article dated 1968, involving Ebenezer Taylor and David Ross (pictured) from Fearn, Are you related?
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Roderick Innes, 78th Foot, Tain.
Extract from The Life of Roderick Innes, Lately of H.M. Seventy-Eighth Regiment, written by Roderick Innes from Tain.
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Mortar Squad poem.
A huge number of men from Easter Ross spent most of the war as P.O.W’s after being captured at St Valery on the 12th of June 1940. This poem was said to have been written in the South of England before embarking for France and mentions the names of men from our area most of whom were taken prisoner, some of them never coming home again.
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