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20.08.2021 / 20:39
‘I could not have had better parents' Young Scots soldier’s heartbreaking ‘last letter home’
WW1.The message is among a wealth of handwritten treasures which will be on display at the newly reopened Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum at Stirling Castle.Private Vincent Collins, 18, of the 8 th (Argyllshire) Battalion wrote the last letter home to his parents in 1915, the night before his unit moved into the trenches.Tragically, Vincent was wounded on 4 October that year and died from his injuries.The note is in an incredibly fragile condition so to bring it to life the team has