Saw this on the BBC web page about trenches discovered at Invergordon by the Cromarty Firth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highla...nds/7719513.stm

Cheers crannog, very interesting,you don't happen to have a loch Tay connection do you?
Mike

No connection with Loch tay crannogs....

Thanks for alerting us to this set, it's not one I was aware of. The Marine connection makes sense.

Cheers

Martin

Crannog,
Do you have a more exact location? I've spent a while looking on google earth couldn't see them, and I did a bit more searching and found this scotsman article which mentions the Pentlands - does anybody know about these? I would assume Castlelaw Ranges?
Any help would be appreciated, as I'd like to vist the Invergordon ones later this month.
Brendan

The second line 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, RGA (TF) set up a training camp at Invergordon shortly after the Highland Division left for France in 1915 and remained there. So it was Army as well as Navy there.

Mike Morrison

3rd Cameron Highlanders were based at Invergordon from the start of the war to November 1917 when they were sent to Ireland. They were protecting the oil tanks at Invergordon but also training new recruits for the front line battalions.

New recruits and soldiers wounded in France once again fit for action were processed and kitted out at the Cameron barracks in Inverness then sent to Invergordon for training and to await posting.

3rd Camerons sent 15,583 men (or 15,582 plus my grandad) to front line battalions during the war.

These trenches may well be linked to all of this.

Sorry for the threadjack, but the article in my post above mentions practice trenches at Barry Links near Dundee. A few minutes on google earth and I found these:



I'm heading north at Christmas so I'll have a look at these and hopefully find the Invergordon ones as well.