To mark the 110th anniversary of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster on 22 May 1915 in which 216 members of the 7th Battalion, The Royal Scots were killed and many more injured. The Battalion was travelling from Larbert, where it had been training, to Liverpool Docks to board a ship bound for Gallipoli. A local community Remembrance Service will be held at Quintinshill and Gretna on Thu 22 May and the annual Regimental Memorial Service will be held on Sat 24 May in Rosebank Cemetery, where many of the victims were buried.
Commemoration of the Gretna rail disaster
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