Scots WWI letters donated to Montrose museum from America

Letters about Vic and Captain Alexander Wallace, have been handed to the Montrose Heritage Air Station, that further unearth their story.

Haley Bouma

More than a hundred years after the end of the First World War new details have emerged about a horse from Angus and her rider who fought in the conflict’s most infamous battles.

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