Uisdean Vass shares his experiences researching into his family’s wartime stories. His father, Andrew “Percy” Vass was posthumously awarded the Arctic Star medal.

By way of introduction, I am an unwilling exile from the beautiful lands of the Kyle of Sutherland. My mother, Johan “Joy” Vass, was born in Bonar Bridge in 1920, and taught in Rosehall Primary School for many years, retiring as Headmistress in 1982. My father was. . .