Donald Caskie OBE

Order of the British Empire

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OCF

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 (1902 - 1983) was a minister in the Church of Scotland, best known for his exploits in France during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, during which he helped an estimated 2,000 Allied

Allies of World War II

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 sailors, soldiers and airmen to escape from occupied France (mainly through Spain). The 'Fasti

Fasti

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' - the record of all Church of Scotland ministers since the Reformation

Scottish Reformation

The Scottish Reformation was Scotland's formal break with the Papacy in 1560, and the events surrounding this. It was part of the wider European Protestant Reformation; and in Scotland's case culminated ecclesiastically in the re-establishment of the church along Reformed lines, and politically in...

 - simply mentions that he was "engaged in church and patriotic duties in France, 1939-1945".

The son of a crofter, he was born in Bowmore

Bowmore

Bowmore Bowmore Bowmore (Scottish Gaelic: Bogh Mòr is a village on the Scottish island of Islay and serves as administrative capital of the island. It gives its name to the famous distillery producing Bowmore Single Malt, a single malt scotch whisky.-History:...

 on Islay

Islay

-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...

 in 1902.