06/02/2022

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A passage from ‘Home’ read within sight of the Iolaire tragedy. On New Year’s Day 1919 after 4 terrible years of war, the lads from Lewis and Harris were returning home on the Admiralty yacht, The Iolaire. Within sight of the lights of home the vessel foundered on rocks at the entrance to Stornoway Harbour. More than 200 were drowned.

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