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Our old world diff’rences are dead: the Scottish emigrant military tradition in the First World War
Scottish volunteer corps were an established feature of the defence forces of the British Dominions in the decades before the First World War. Displaying and performing the essentials of traditional identity associated with the British army’s Scottish regiments, these military units constituted one form of associational culture for migrant Scots...Allan, Stuart ; Forsyth, David S
conscription, First World War, Dominions, mobilisation, expeditionary forces, volunteer, nationalism, and Scottish military tradition
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Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War
Emigration has been an ever-present theme in the story of Scotland. In 1914, as the world prepared for war, thousands of men enlisted in Scotland for military service, and across the British empire and beyond thousands more of Scottish birth and descent joined up. As optimism gave way to the...Allan, Stuart ; Forsyth, David S