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57. THE CHILDREN THEY LEFT BEHIND.

Elderly people still living in the village recall what a trauma the First World War was for all the village. The number of names on the war memorial attests to this, especially when one realizes that the population of the village had dropped to eleven hundred by this time.

In this photograph posed at the old Infant School at the foot of the Dragon are assembled all of the children of the men who have gone from Dunning to serve in the Armed Forces. Included are not only those whose fathers were in the services, but those who had uncles or brothers. Like much of Perthshire, many of the men from Dunning served in the Black Watch regiment headquartered in Perth.

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