Quiz Answers

WW2 QUIZ ANSWERS

1. 813 evacuees, mostly children, arrived by train at Culter in September 1938. 2. The evacuees came from a poor area of Glasgow. Almost all returned within a few months because the predicted devastation by bombing did not happen. 3. The prisoner of war camp was on Coronation Road, which at that time passed through fields.

4. The prisoners were Italians, initially from the first British victory in North Africa.

5. Canadian lumberjacks based in Banchory felled the plantation on Newmillhill, between the Deeside Road and the Coalford road.

6. After prolonged experimentation, Culter Mill succeeded in making paper from straw.

7. A German bomb left a crater at Craigentath Farm, Maryculter, in 1940. In the same year several fell in Pitfodels, one closing the North Deeside Road.

8. Culter Home Guard was based in the Bush, in the hut later used by the Army cadets.

9. They threw hand grenades into the field behind the War Memorial, which gave protection.

lO.Following report of a German invasion at Stonehaven, the Home Guard manned trenches in Culter.

11. To prevent invasion from the west, perforated pipes ran along both parapets of the bridge and up to a tank of petrol beside Malcolm Road. Opening a valve enveloped the road in flames.

12. The lst Mountain Regiment was stationed both at Maryculter, near Corbie Linn, and in Culter House.

13. Indian and Polish troops were also stationed at Maryculter.

14. The NAAFI was in St Peter's Church Hall.

15.29 Culter men were killed in WW2.

(With acknowledgement to Bill Booth & Aberdeen Library Services)