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80<br><font class=headline><font size=+8><center><i>Welcome to the</i> <b>BUTE-AT-WAR </b><i> Website</i></font></font size>
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90<font size=+1><b><i>This website was established, and subsequently expanded, to provide as meaningful an insight as possible into the part played by the Isle of Bute during World War II, and it seeks to do this by providing the following information:</font size> &nbsp&nbsp 
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95<font size=+1><font color=#dd2200><b><u><a href="/butewar.shtml">Bute's unique and definitive role during Word War II</CENTER></font size></font color></u></a><br>
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97<center><font size=+1><font color=#dd2200><b><u><a href="/events.shtml">Bute's 60th Anniversary V-Day Commemoration 23rd - 26th June 2005</CENTER></font size></font color></b><br>
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130<h3><font size=+1>DECLARATION OF WAR - 3rd SEPTEMBER 1939</font size></h3>
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136<font size=+1><b><font color=red>British Prime Minster Mr Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany in an Address to the Nation on 3rd September 1939</font color></font size></b><br><br>
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142<h3><font size=+1>BUTE'S UNIQUE MILITARY WARTIME INVOLVEMENT</font size></h3>
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146<font size=+1>In the same way that no part of Britain can honestly assert that it was immune from, or untouched by, the events of World War II, so too there cannot be many parts of Britain, especially on a geographic scale of only 15 miles long by 5 miles across at its widest, that can claim to have witnessed greater and more-varied military involvement than the tiny Isle of Bute 
147<a href="/gallery/butemap.pdf"> (<u>click for location map</u>)</a>, strategically snuggled amongst neighbouring islands and mainland peninsulas in the western waters of the Clyde Estuary.  Yet the historical record, which has heroism, sacrifice, ingenuity, commitment and compassion emblazoned across it, had become increasingly at risk of fading irretrievably into oblivion.<br><br>
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149It is in this context, of a spectacular story to be told and an imperative that it should never be forgotten among succeeding generations, that an application was made to the Heritage Lottery Fund to seek funding for a programme of events to commemorate Bute's wartime involvements, as part of Britain's 60th Anniversary of V-Day celebrations in 2005.  The Lottery's "Home Front Recall" Fund very generously allocated a sizeable sum to Bute's commemoration programme, and the establishment of the predecessor of this website (now much expanded) was just one of the many projects for which funding was approved.  Its purpose is to communicate Bute's story to as wide an audience as possible, and to facilitate people sharing their wartime experiences and accounts of happenings on Bute.<br>
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151For a full account of Bute's 60th Anniversary of V-Day Commemorations <a href="/events.shtml"> Click here</a>
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