An amateur genealogist has offered an insight into the story of the men of Kirriemuir who perished in the First World War.
At an event in the Gateway to the Glens museum, Margaret Thorburn from Edinburgh met relatives of the soldiers whose names are carved on the local war memorial.
Margaret, who grew up in Glamis, became fascinated by family history research after she retired and decided to look into the history of the men on the village memorial.
She published a booklet on her work and then moved on to the more substantial task of recording the family history of more than 200 Kirrie names.
Many of the Kirrie names were soldiers of The Black Watch, but the list also includes men of the Gordon Highlanders, as well as some from Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
They include two nephews of author and Peter Pan creator JM Barrie, as well as the name of one woman Agnes Mann, a nurse on HMS Salta.
Ms Thorburn’s research was presented to the museum in November and has proved an invaluable resource as the centenary of the First World War approaches.
Her booklet on the Kirrie war memorial has also now been published, but as Margaret met families at the museum she admitted the story of old families is never really complete.
“The publication of the Kirrie booklet was only completed a couple of weeks ago after information came from Australia in March which added to the details I had already established,” she said.
“In view of the close links with Kirrie I decided to add the information, even although some of the soldiers survived until after the end of the war,” Margaret added.
Her appetite for family history remains undimmed, but she said that after years of hard work pulling together the many threads that bind together those remembered on the two Angus memorials she is content to return to completing more work on the Thorburn family name.