Scotland lost over 3% of its male population, though annual census of the years during and after the war show modest population increase rather than a dent.[/QUOTE]


I've heard different. Regardless it was an awful waste of Scottish manhood, and the men of the nations invloved, in a criminal and ultimately pointless excercise. Having seen the lists of war dead in Scotland and the memorials in Flanders I cannot feel anything but revulsion and anger.