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On February 23rd 1915, hundreds of men recruited from Dundee’s jute and jam factories boarded special trains at the old Tay Bridge Rail Station and headed to France.
The Fourth territorial Battalion of the Black Watch were known as ‘Dundee’s Own’, and came to symbolise the terrible sacrifice made by the city. Accounts of their first months in the trenches of the Western Front were printed in Dundee’s three newspapers, providing a vital source of information for thousands of anxious family members at home.
Sixty three percent of Dundee’s eligible men joined the armed forces. By the end of the war fifteen percent of them would be dead, the highest total of any British city. Scottish singer-songwriter Ricky Ross visited the archives of publisher DC Thomson to see how The Dundee Courier reported the loss.