Original OCR: no clean-up
9,952 ALTO XML files at page level
9,952 image files
METS metadata files at item level
455,785 lines and 2,558,905 words
Covers years 1914-1919
The Scottish First World War Rolls of Honour contain listings of casualties and those who died while on active service during the War.
This dataset includes rolls for organisations such as schools, universities, clans, businesses and churches, as well as for locations all over Scotland.
The dataset also contains some orders of service for the unveilings of war memorials in Scotland.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34812/qfd4-3d81
Dataset creator: National Library of Scotland
Dataset publisher: National Library of Scotland
Publication year: 2020
Suggested citation: National Library of Scotland. Rolls of Honour. National Library of Scotland, 2020. https://doi.org/10.34812/qfd4-3d81