By late 1944, many of the inmates at Camp 14 had gained a reputation as trouble-makers. ‘The POWs at Doonfoot camp, situated where the road going south from Ayr crosses the River Doon, had long ...

The 80th anniversary of the greatest raid of the Second World War – led by a commando unit headquartered at Ayr’s Wellington Square – has been marked. The St Nazaire Raid, or Operation ...

PUPILS from a school in Ayr were given the chance to follow in the footsteps of World War I heroes recently. Primary seven and S1 pupils from Wellington School enjoyed a trip to France and Belgium ...

HE is such a distinctive figure, that even now, 70 years later, he is instantly recognisable. This is Winston Churchill in May, 1947, leaving Ayr Town Hall after receiving the Freedom of the Burgh.

The local men formed a Home Guard and used the old Police Station in Ayr Road as a headquarters. The day shift men would meet for training on Tuesdays 6-8pm, Thursdays 6-8 pm and Sundays 4-6pm.

TWO years after the Second World War came to an end, Winston Churchill told an audience in Ayr that it had been an ‘unnecessary’ conflict that could have been prevented in 1935 or 1936.