{"id":3137,"date":"2015-02-09T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2015-02-09T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:42:34","slug":"donald-maccormick-highland-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/02\/09\/donald-maccormick-highland-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald MacCormick: Highland Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northuistww1.wordpress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3136 size-medium\" title=\"Donald MacCormick talks for &quot;An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/donaldbooks.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DonaldBooks\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/donaldbooks.jpg 811w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/donaldbooks-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/donaldbooks-768x530.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Donald MacCormick, the well-known book-collector, talks in Gaelic to Archie Campbell about the contributions and sacrifices made by Highland soldiers in the First World War, and the reputation they earned.<\/p>\n<p>As the statistics he cites make clear, it came at a heavy price, especially amongst the\u00a0<a title=\"Norman Johnson on pipers\" href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/01\/30\/norman-johnson-piper\/\">pipers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is another short film, shot by Laura Donkers, made as part of the <a title=\"An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach website\" href=\"https:\/\/northuistww1.wordpress.com\/about\/\">An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach<\/a> project led by North Uist Historical Society, Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath, which is collecting some very distinctive &#8220;island voices&#8221; that have a special tale to tell.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald MacCormick: Highland Soldiers\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TCXxIcI7NuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald MacCormick, the well-known book-collector, talks in Gaelic to Archie Campbell about the contributions and sacrifices made by Highland soldiers in the First World War, and the reputation they earned. As the statistics he cites make clear, it came at a heavy price, especially amongst the\u00a0pipers. This is another short film, shot by Laura Donkers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/02\/09\/donald-maccormick-highland-soldiers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald MacCormick: Highland Soldiers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-ugc","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}