Ardentinny.org records the end of Combined Operations’ HMS Armadillo
The first class news site for Ardentinny on the shores of Loch Long in in east Cowal – Ardentinny.org – has published two articles telling the story of the recent end of one of Argyll’s many secrets –...
View ArticleThe Gertrude Canning Murder: facts, confusions and developments
At the end of June 1942, WREN Gertrude Canning was murdered and her body left in a ditch below a path at an idyllic spot in Inveraray woods.She was reported missing two days later and her body found by...
View ArticleA Wren for a Wren at 70th anniversary of Gertrude Canning’s murder
Four generations of the Irish Canning family – something like 40 people – were in Inveraray today for two special commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the murder there of aunt to the oldest of...
View ArticleR & R Barnwell back at HMS Quebec for some 90th birthday R & R
This is the story of two lives – Ruth Farnish and Ron Barnwell – brought together here in Argyll during World War II, at HMS Quebec, one of Argyll’s main centres for the development of Combined...
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