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Two war memorials in a church in Troon and a chapel in Musselburgh commemorate one of the more than 19,000 British soldiers who lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.

Read about Scotland’s sporting heroes who fought on the 1st of July 1916 at the Battle of the Somme – the bloodiest day in British military history.

The Kitchener memorial on the cliffs of Marwick head in Orkney, keeps watch over the grave of more than 600 men who lost their lives in on 5 June 1916 when the battle cruiser HMS Hampshire struck a mine and sank in under 20 minutes.

When the fleets of the British Navy fought at the Battle of Jutland, the greatest naval battle of the First World War, they were supported by an intricate infrastructure on land. Hear the stories of the men and women who were on hand to provide much needed aid to the ships, and their recollections of the men after their return from the battle.