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Boys Brigade,
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L/Cpl
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Officer James S. Scobbie
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A two day raid by
the German Luftwaffe flattened almost the entire
town of Clydebank after it was bombed in the
blitz leaving thousands homeless and more than
500 people dead.
These two Boys Brigade members and their
bikes are seen here receiving orders from their
BB officer before cycling through the devastated
streets to pass on information. |
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This photo is in the book "After fifty years:
1st Bearsden Company, The Boy's
Brigade, 1898-1948"
National Library of Scotland
Catalogue MMSID : 99900273804341 |
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Jan 2019, email, James Scobbie, Age
50+, Edinburgh
The Officer in the photo is my father, James Stevenson
Scobbie (1920-1995), from Manse Road,
Bearsden, Glasgow.
He was probably a medical student at Glasgow
University at the time of the photo.
He graduated with a emergency medical degree and
served with the Royal Army Medical Corps as
Captain in Italy and Belgium. Further details of
his career (mainly as a GP in Glasgow) are
reported in: Obituary "James Stevenson
Scobbie" by Douglas A. Haldane
BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 311, No.
7018 (Dec. 2, 1995), p. 1499
Published by: BMJ
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29729726
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