HELENSBURGH was known for a time during World War Two as ‘Little Norway’.
That was also the name given to a Norwegian Air Force base formed in Toronto during the autumn of 1940.
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Remembrance tribute to MAEE
EACH Remembrance Sunday a Poppy Cross is placed at the Rhu War Memorial on the village green in memory of men who died while serving at RAF Helensburgh in World War Two.
RAF Helensburgh was the cover name for a secret wing of the Royal Air Force, the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, which tested experimental flying boats.
Captain died from infected wounds
A MEMBER of a well-known Helensburgh family died unexpectedly in hospital after receiving gunshot wounds at Ypres in 1917.
Burgh man captured 'death boat'
THE HEADLINE in the Helensburgh and Gareloch Times was rather more dramatic than the Times usually carried . . . “Towing Nazi Death Launch’.
But the story, which featured a burgh man, deserved it.
Gallant Major won MC twice
A HELENSBURGH man who died in 2000 at the age of 80 was reckoned to be the last remaining officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to win the Military Cross twice in World War Two.
John Henry Fleck Morton — known to all as Harry, which was also his father’s name — was born in Old Kilpatrick in 1920 but grew up in Helensburgh and spent much of his life in the town.
Is this Torpedo Range launch?
RESTORING a small boat with links to the former Admiralty Torpedo Range at Arrochar has become a 30-year obsession for its owner.
Now Robert Clements wants to establish more of the history of the motor launch, and he hopes Helensburgh Heritage Trust website readers can help.
Burgh cook never recovered from sinking
A HELENSBURGH man was a cook on board the liner Athenia, the first ship to be torpedoed in the Second World War.
John Joseph O’Keefe survived the sinking on September 3 1939, but died later as a result of the injuries he received.