We reproduce here some poignant first person accounts on everyday life during wartime. Taken from Sarah Horne’s Bonar Bridge booklets, printed in the year 2000.

Angus Sutherland

“During the war Bonar was a centre for military personnel. There were 400 Canadian Forestry troops stationed at Invershin. The SAS trained at Achany Battle School with 300 to 400 troups and the Norwegian and Czechs and. . .