Goodbye Scotland, Hello Iowa
May 10-12, 2025 Heading home! On Saturday May 10, we visited Cultybraggen Camp located in the village of Comrie, not far from Crieff. The camp was constructed during the second Word War and could house up to 4000 prisoners of war, first Italian, then German. It was named POW Camp 21. It had a notoriously hard reputation, housing dozens of SS officers, members of the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Marine Corps. Placard inside one of prison cells After the war in 1948 it became a Ministry of Defense training camp. Thousands of personnel in the regular, territorial and cadet forces were trained here until its closure in 2004. In 2008, it was purchased by a local organization and is now a multi-use site benefiting the community and local businesses. It also contains a Community Orchard, Community Woodland and a large area for allotments for locals to use as gardens. VE (Victory in Europe) Day is observed on May 8th each year, and as ...