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The Tartan Pimpernell. Born at
Bowmore (on Islay) and educated at the University of Edinburgh. Caskie
left his first charge at Gretna to become minister of the Scot's Kirk in
Paris. During World War II he moved to Marseille where he helped British
servicemen escape the Nazis to freedom. Eventually arrested, badly treated
and sentenced to death, he was released following the intervention of a
German clergyman. He returned to the Scot's Kirk which was rebuilt after
the war. He later completed a Doctorate in Divinity at the University of
Edinburgh which gave some insight into his wartime work and the full story
appears in his autobiography The Tartan Pimpernell published in
1957. Caskie ended his career ministering in Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay.
Reproduced with permission
from the Gazetteer for Scotland,
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/, (c) The Gazetteer for Scotland,
2002".
The
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