First World War Audit
09/01/2014
Scotland's role in the First World War was vital to the British Empire's defeat of the Central Powers. A project to examine the remains of that conflict has just been completed by RCAHMS and Historic Scotland. For the first time a list of First World War sites all across Scotland reveals the role the nation played in the defence of the British Isles. This gallery brings together digital images from the RCAHMS collections demonstrating the wealth of sites and quality of some of the remains, which can still be seen today.
SC 361983
Interior-general view of former flying boat hangar at Stannergate, Dundee, from North West
© RCAHMS
SC 367620
Axonometric Drawings, Cross-Sections and Elevations of Aircraft Hangars at Montrose Airfield
© RCAHMS
SC 367737
Longitudinal Section, Transverse Section, Structural Diagram and Cut-Away View of Structural Frame and Doors of airship shed at East Fortune Airfield
© RCAHMS
SC 401773
Custom House, Custom House Street, Ullapool. View of West end of building of former drill hall from South West with instructors house on E side.
© RCAHMS
SC 435164
Dalmore, Distillery, Alness, used as a mining station in the First World War. Exterior view showing kiln buildings.
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 494960
Inverarish, Raasay, Miner's Housing and First World War PoW accommondation. General View
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 588697
Catrine, Bridge Street, Wilson Hall View from NW
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 600925
Scanned image of drawing showing site plan of First and Second World War gun emplacements, magazines, Battery Observation Towers, crew shelters and accommodation camp at Holm Battery, Orkney. Duplicate of SC 1065338
© RCAHMS
SC 600937
Scanned image of view of Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, First World War gun emplacement and trench from East
© RCAHMS
SC 645646
Scanned image of view of the First World War YMCA on Flotta, Orkney. View of large chimney in middle of East wall, from North West
© RCAHMS
SC 673965
Scanned image of detail of entrance door to magazine at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay.
© RCAHMS
SC 673977
Scanned image of view of World War I trench and magazine at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay.
© RCAHMS
SC 684437
View of construction of Inchinnan airship shed in 1916.
© Courtesy of HES (Sir William Arrol Collection)
SC 773012
Oblique aerial view of North Sutor First and Second World War coast battery searchlight positions taken from the ESE. Visible is the remains of the connecting First World War suspension bridge between two of the searchlight platforms.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 791971
View Lauderdale House, Dunbar from NNW showing NNW front of former house and barracks.
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 797389
Scanned image of Luftwaffe vertical air photograph of the First World War flying boat base at Cat Firth, Shetland Islands.
© Courtesy of HES (Records of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Second World War Aerial Reconnaissance)
SC 893188
View W showing NCO's huts, store and cook house for South Sutor, Cromarty, QF battery during construction phase.
© RCAHMS
SC 910816
Scanned image of view W showing excavation works during construction for gun No.1 (9.2") at the South Sutor, Cromarty. The brick foundations for the magazine area are visible.
© RCAHMS: Crown Copyright
DP 005402
View of RAF Leuchars Domestic site, First World War barrack block building, now tailor's shop and launderette from W
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 993165
Scanned image of oblique aerial view of Castle Knowe in the Pentland Hills, centred on the remains of the trenches with the palisaded settlement and rig adjacent, taken from the SSW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 006277
View of First World War hangar at RAF Leuchars. Coupled General Service Shed showing gable end, doors and brick piers from N.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 006321
View of First World War huts including former flight office from SW at RAF Leuchars.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 006325
Interior of First World War hangar at RAF Leuchars. Coupled General Service Shed showing the Belfast Truss roof tie-beams, knee-braces and gusset boards.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1004878
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the Loch Doon aerial gunnery school military camp with the farmsteading and sheepfold adjacent, taken from the N.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 013021
Plan of Port Edgar Royal Naval Base (HMS Lochinvar). Detail of W side of naval base showing barracks and Officer's Quarters.. Civil Engineer in Chiefs Department Adimiralty, Rosyth District
© RCAHMS
DP 023495
Interior of Guardroom cell at Port Edgar Royal Navy Barracks. Detail of one of the original unaltered cells
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1064426
Scanned image of photograph of Arrochar Royal Navy Torpedo Testing Station and Range showing pier head building including part of the pier and a small crane from NW. Titled 'Jetty at Loch Long'.
© RCAHMS
SC 1065312
Scanned image of drawing showing plan, including ground plan at 1:1000 of World War One Heavy Anti-aircraft battery at Burray Ness, Orkney
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1065341
Scanned image of drawing showing plans and section of First World War 6-inch gun emplacements with magazines at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1065357
Scanned image of drawing showing section across Belfast Truss roof of NAAFI block at Lyness, Orkney.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 024193
Oblique aerial view of Rhicullen, Ross-shire, centred on the remains of the practice trenches, taken from the NW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 025555
Oblique aerial view centred on the Port Edgar Royal Navy barracks, officers' quarters, air raid shelter, stores, boiler house and gym, taken from the SSE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 026883
Oblique aerial view centred on Stobs Military Camp and First World War PoW camp, taken from the SW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 033082
View of Port Edgar Royal Navy barracks guardroom, from E showing gable end of guard house and cell block with store huts in back ground.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 036795
Oblique aerial view centred on the former hospital and First World War military camp with East Fortune farmstead adjacent, taken from ESE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 042228
A steel and concrete built gun-emplacement guards the pier at St Kilda village (NF19NW 1). The gun and sunken magazine were completed during October 1918 after a bombardment by a U-boat the previous May. View from NE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1116235
View looking E on the South Sutor, Cromarty Firth, showing Officer's quarters, NCO's huts, store and cook house for QF battery during construction phase.
© RCAHMS
SC 1116241
View E showing excavations for North Sutor, Cromarty Firth, QF (Quick Firing) gun-emplacement Nos. 3 and 4.
© RCAHMS
SC 1116243
General view of North Sutor, Cromarty Firth, looking SE of the construction site of main gun-emplacements.
© RCAHMS
DP 044035
Oblique aerial view of Clyde defences, Portkil Battery centred on the 6-inch gun battery emplacments with the 4.7-inch emplacements adjacent, taken from the NNW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 049606
General oblique aerial view centred on Inchgarvie, taken from the E.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 053098
Oblique aerial view centred on the Hoxa Head WW I coastal battery, taken from the W.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 055947
View of Battery Observation Post for H group battery on Inchkeith from SW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 055962
Interior, first floor of Battery Observation Post 'O' group battery, Inchkeith.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 056048
Interior view of B group 9.2-ich gun emplacement magazine, detail of 9.2-inch shell hoist and winch.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 056164
Detail of brick built ground floor and harled upper viewing platforms of the Inchkeith Port War Signal Station and Fire Command post on Inchkeith from NW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 056330
Interior of Oil storage building, showing oil tanks on Inchkeith island.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 058348
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the trench system at Hedderwick Links, East Lothian, taken from the NW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 065723
View from N of the former Campeltown Drill Hall with the hotel in the background.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 074297
Nigg Ferry Royal Navy pier at the entrance to the Cromarty Firth. View from NW
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1166341
Oblique aerial view of Orkney, taken from the SW of Ness WW I coast battery with three gun-emplacements and sunken magazines.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 077126
View from NW (N end of the pier) on Inchmickery showing Battery Observation Posts and First World War buildings on W side of island.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 077143
View from SW showing ready-use ammunition lockers at base of gun platform on Inchmickery Island in the Forth.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 078118
Oblique aerial view of the practice trench system showing as parchmarks in the grass of Kinghorn Golf Course, Fife, taken from the S.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 084318
View from ESE of the former barracks and drill hall of Dudhope Castle, Dundee.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1226348
View of archway of former drill hall at 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, showing shields carved with the arms of Edinburgh (left) and The Royal Scots (right), and bronze inscription panel.
© Courtesy of HES (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA), Edinburgh Regional Archive)
DP 096625
General oblique aerial view of Montrose Airfield, centred on the hangars, taken from the NE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1256574
Arrol-Aster Car Factory, Heathhall, Dumfries. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.
© Copyright: HES (Aerofilms Collection)
SC 1261819
General view Harlaw Academy, Aberdeen,and used as a First World War hospital, from west north west
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1334506
Helensburgh, 75 Princes Street drill hall. NE Entrance. View from ENE
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 361983
Interior-general view of former flying boat hangar at Stannergate, Dundee, from North West
© RCAHMS
SC 367620
Axonometric Drawings, Cross-Sections and Elevations of Aircraft Hangars at Montrose Airfield
© RCAHMS
SC 367737
Longitudinal Section, Transverse Section, Structural Diagram and Cut-Away View of Structural Frame and Doors of airship shed at East Fortune Airfield
© RCAHMS
SC 401773
Custom House, Custom House Street, Ullapool. View of West end of building of former drill hall from South West with instructors house on E side.
© RCAHMS
SC 435164
Dalmore, Distillery, Alness, used as a mining station in the First World War. Exterior view showing kiln buildings.
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 494960
Inverarish, Raasay, Miner's Housing and First World War PoW accommondation. General View
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 588697
Catrine, Bridge Street, Wilson Hall View from NW
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 600925
Scanned image of drawing showing site plan of First and Second World War gun emplacements, magazines, Battery Observation Towers, crew shelters and accommodation camp at Holm Battery, Orkney. Duplicate of SC 1065338
© RCAHMS
SC 600937
Scanned image of view of Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, First World War gun emplacement and trench from East
© RCAHMS
SC 645646
Scanned image of view of the First World War YMCA on Flotta, Orkney. View of large chimney in middle of East wall, from North West
© RCAHMS
SC 673965
Scanned image of detail of entrance door to magazine at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay.
© RCAHMS
SC 673977
Scanned image of view of World War I trench and magazine at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay.
© RCAHMS
SC 684437
View of construction of Inchinnan airship shed in 1916.
© Courtesy of HES (Sir William Arrol Collection)
SC 773012
Oblique aerial view of North Sutor First and Second World War coast battery searchlight positions taken from the ESE. Visible is the remains of the connecting First World War suspension bridge between two of the searchlight platforms.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 791971
View Lauderdale House, Dunbar from NNW showing NNW front of former house and barracks.
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 797389
Scanned image of Luftwaffe vertical air photograph of the First World War flying boat base at Cat Firth, Shetland Islands.
© Courtesy of HES (Records of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Second World War Aerial Reconnaissance)
SC 893188
View W showing NCO's huts, store and cook house for South Sutor, Cromarty, QF battery during construction phase.
© RCAHMS
SC 910816
Scanned image of view W showing excavation works during construction for gun No.1 (9.2") at the South Sutor, Cromarty. The brick foundations for the magazine area are visible.
© RCAHMS: Crown Copyright
DP 005402
View of RAF Leuchars Domestic site, First World War barrack block building, now tailor's shop and launderette from W
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 993165
Scanned image of oblique aerial view of Castle Knowe in the Pentland Hills, centred on the remains of the trenches with the palisaded settlement and rig adjacent, taken from the SSW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 006277
View of First World War hangar at RAF Leuchars. Coupled General Service Shed showing gable end, doors and brick piers from N.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 006321
View of First World War huts including former flight office from SW at RAF Leuchars.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 006325
Interior of First World War hangar at RAF Leuchars. Coupled General Service Shed showing the Belfast Truss roof tie-beams, knee-braces and gusset boards.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1004878
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the Loch Doon aerial gunnery school military camp with the farmsteading and sheepfold adjacent, taken from the N.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 013021
Plan of Port Edgar Royal Naval Base (HMS Lochinvar). Detail of W side of naval base showing barracks and Officer's Quarters.. Civil Engineer in Chiefs Department Adimiralty, Rosyth District
© RCAHMS
DP 017098
Oblique aerial view of Throsk Royal Navy Armament Depot. Explosives store from NW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 021760
View of a First World War shed at Port Edgar, from SW of Shed 4 showing brick built extension with sliding door.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 023495
Interior of Guardroom cell at Port Edgar Royal Navy Barracks. Detail of one of the original unaltered cells
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1064426
Scanned image of photograph of Arrochar Royal Navy Torpedo Testing Station and Range showing pier head building including part of the pier and a small crane from NW. Titled 'Jetty at Loch Long'.
© RCAHMS
SC 1065312
Scanned image of drawing showing plan, including ground plan at 1:1000 of World War One Heavy Anti-aircraft battery at Burray Ness, Orkney
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1065341
Scanned image of drawing showing plans and section of First World War 6-inch gun emplacements with magazines at Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1065357
Scanned image of drawing showing section across Belfast Truss roof of NAAFI block at Lyness, Orkney.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 024193
Oblique aerial view of Rhicullen, Ross-shire, centred on the remains of the practice trenches, taken from the NW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 025555
Oblique aerial view centred on the Port Edgar Royal Navy barracks, officers' quarters, air raid shelter, stores, boiler house and gym, taken from the SSE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 026883
Oblique aerial view centred on Stobs Military Camp and First World War PoW camp, taken from the SW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 033082
View of Port Edgar Royal Navy barracks guardroom, from E showing gable end of guard house and cell block with store huts in back ground.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 036795
Oblique aerial view centred on the former hospital and First World War military camp with East Fortune farmstead adjacent, taken from ESE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 042228
A steel and concrete built gun-emplacement guards the pier at St Kilda village (NF19NW 1). The gun and sunken magazine were completed during October 1918 after a bombardment by a U-boat the previous May. View from NE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1116235
View looking E on the South Sutor, Cromarty Firth, showing Officer's quarters, NCO's huts, store and cook house for QF battery during construction phase.
© RCAHMS
SC 1116241
View E showing excavations for North Sutor, Cromarty Firth, QF (Quick Firing) gun-emplacement Nos. 3 and 4.
© RCAHMS
SC 1116243
General view of North Sutor, Cromarty Firth, looking SE of the construction site of main gun-emplacements.
© RCAHMS
DP 044035
Oblique aerial view of Clyde defences, Portkil Battery centred on the 6-inch gun battery emplacments with the 4.7-inch emplacements adjacent, taken from the NNW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 049606
General oblique aerial view centred on Inchgarvie, taken from the E.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 053098
Oblique aerial view centred on the Hoxa Head WW I coastal battery, taken from the W.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 055947
View of Battery Observation Post for H group battery on Inchkeith from SW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 055962
Interior, first floor of Battery Observation Post 'O' group battery, Inchkeith.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 056048
Interior view of B group 9.2-ich gun emplacement magazine, detail of 9.2-inch shell hoist and winch.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 056164
Detail of brick built ground floor and harled upper viewing platforms of the Inchkeith Port War Signal Station and Fire Command post on Inchkeith from NW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 056330
Interior of Oil storage building, showing oil tanks on Inchkeith island.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 058348
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the trench system at Hedderwick Links, East Lothian, taken from the NW.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 065723
View from N of the former Campeltown Drill Hall with the hotel in the background.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 074297
Nigg Ferry Royal Navy pier at the entrance to the Cromarty Firth. View from NW
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1166341
Oblique aerial view of Orkney, taken from the SW of Ness WW I coast battery with three gun-emplacements and sunken magazines.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 077126
View from NW (N end of the pier) on Inchmickery showing Battery Observation Posts and First World War buildings on W side of island.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 077143
View from SW showing ready-use ammunition lockers at base of gun platform on Inchmickery Island in the Forth.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 078118
Oblique aerial view of the practice trench system showing as parchmarks in the grass of Kinghorn Golf Course, Fife, taken from the S.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 084318
View from ESE of the former barracks and drill hall of Dudhope Castle, Dundee.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1226348
View of archway of former drill hall at 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, showing shields carved with the arms of Edinburgh (left) and The Royal Scots (right), and bronze inscription panel.
© Courtesy of HES (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA), Edinburgh Regional Archive)
DP 096625
General oblique aerial view of Montrose Airfield, centred on the hangars, taken from the NE.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1256574
Arrol-Aster Car Factory, Heathhall, Dumfries. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.
© Copyright: HES (Aerofilms Collection)
SC 1261819
General view Harlaw Academy, Aberdeen,and used as a First World War hospital, from west north west
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1334506
Helensburgh, 75 Princes Street drill hall. NE Entrance. View from ENE
© Crown Copyright: HES
