On these pages you’ll find updates on the most recent McCrae’s Battalion Trust news and events.
From the installation of the ‘Fifth Plaque’ to the latest information on our annual pilgrimage, this is where we’ll post it.
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The Trust is very pleased to introduce Peter Sutton from St Cuthberts as our official Padre. Welcomed by chairman Lt Col Gary Tait and Eddie Dalgleish with Janice Todd.
Read more →The Hearts Museum have copies of The “HEARTS” and the Great War booklet written by John McCartney on sale in the Museum. John McCartney was Hearts manager from 1910-19 and he authored two booklets documenting Scottish footballers in the Great War and those from Hearts who perished.
Read more →A SERVICE WILL BE HELD IN ST CUTHBERT’S CHURCH ON SUNDAY 1 JULY 2018 TO MARK THE END OF THE WW1 CENTENARIES. START TIME: 10.30 FOR 11.00. The service will commemorate the sacrifice made by men from the City of Edinburgh and surrounding towns who volunteered
Read more →AGM 2017/18 Calling Notice Members are advised that the 2017/18 Annual General Meeting of the McCrae’s Battalion Trust will take place on Friday 15 December 2017. This ‘members only’ event will be held at the :- Army Reserve Centre, 89 E Claremont St, Edinburgh EH7 4HU –
Read more →Contalmaison 2018 Next year will be the last opportunity to commemorate a 100 anniversary of WW1, in fact the end of the war. We are still working on the fine details of the trip which will be published shortly but meanwhile we would like to remind anyone
Read more →From the 1st of July to 2nd August 2016 a large painted textile,”Mapping Remembrance”, will be on show in St Giles Cathedral. It commemorates the contribution made by James Black, chaplain to McCrae’s Battalion in 1916 and later to the Hearts Football Club in Edinburgh. The Rev
Read more →News about the joint July 1st 2016 commemoration event at St Cuthbert’s Church can be found here
Read more →IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Our 2016 Centenary Pilgrimage to Contalmaison lasts from 29 June to 4 July. Successful applicants have now been informed by email and/or letter. Thank you to everyone who applied and commiserations to those who were unlucky. We hope you’ll be able to join us in
Read more →EMBARKATION FOR FRANCE – A NEW MEMORIAL AND AN OLD WRONG RIGHTED PIERSHILL CEMETERY, EDINBURGH – THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2016 – 12.30 FOR 13.00 Towards the end of 2014 McCrae’s Battalion Trust started raising funds to right an old wrong. Thanks to the kindness of local businessmen
Read more →Centenary Pilgrimage 2016 to Contalmaison. In 2004 we completed the last of the official Great War Memorials, when we unveiled the McCrae’s Battalion memorial cairn in the Somme village of Contalmaison. The cairn was originally proposed by veterans of the battalion in 1919 but for a variety
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