Remembering my relatives who died in #WW1 & #WW2 Great Grandfather Clarence Weaver who died due to gas/Spanish Flu as a POW, my Grandad's children killed in #ClydebankBlitz & Granduncle Andrew McKendrick killed on the Somme probably by shelling #Remembrance #LestWeForget

Paul McCartney has dedicated #StGeorgesDay to Georges everywhere, loved & lost. Here’s mine: J George Stant, the suave Grandpa I never met. Served in the Great War & killed in his shipyard during the #ClydebankBlitz. My Mum adored him and, I know, thought of him every day.

This gravestone in Eastwood New Cemetery is a reminder that to this day, not all the bodies of those killed were ever identified. It's one of half a dozen similar stones in a row tucked away at the back of the graveyard.

#glasgow #eastwoodnewcemetery #gravestones #cemetery #clydebankblitz

Between the 13th and 15th of March 1941, the German airforce dropped over 250 tonnes of bombs on Clydeside, killing around 1,200 people (half in Clydebank and half in Glasgow).

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On the 14th March 1941 the citizens of #Clydebank faced the 2nd night of bombing. Officially 528 died in the raids, it is thought that over 1,200 died over the following weeks.

Commit their names & their sacrifice to your memory.

#ClydebankBlitz

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84 years ago tonight Luftwaffe bombers struck #Clydebank for the 1st time, with the greatest loss of civilian life in Scotlands history .

We commemorate those who died & pay tribute to the survivors who came together to defeat National Socialism.

#ClydebankBlitz

#OTD 1941, the first day of the Clydebank Blitz, my Grandad's children were all killed & are commemorated on the Clydebank Memorial. Robert age 4 Thomas age 8 & Margaret 6. Blue circle are the bombs that hit Napier Street where they lived #ClydebankBlitz #WW2 @rgpoulussen.bsky.social

The bridge was built in the 1910s, and was badly damaged by a bomb dropped during the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941.

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Remains of the original parapet of the Kelvin Way Bridge in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow lying on a gravel bank at the side of the river that passes beneath it.

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