The SSPCA award presentation, from left: David Galbraith, the SSPCA’s Inspector James MacLean and Peter McKerral outside Campbeltown sheriff court. IN THIS column, on January 12, the Courier asked for reminiscences of March 1947’s great snow.
Reader Sheena Galbraith, from Clydebank, spotted the request and sent a story from the front page of the paper in July 1947, about the award of a Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) bravery award.
It concerned her husband David Galbraith, 85, who was a 15-year-old shepherd in March 1947 and scrambled onto an icy ledge, above a 200-foot cliff, and rescued 20 sheep from certain death.