| Situated within Kinpurnie Estate at Lundie, by Muirhead, the wood will be one of 33 planted across the UK as part of the Trust’s Trafalgar Project, which is celebrating Admiral Nelson’s famous victory of 1805.
Trees will begin being planted in November, and the wood will be named Naiad after one of the ships which took part in the battle.
Almost 30% of the crews involved in the Battle of Trafalgar hailed from Scottish towns and fishing villages.
Five of Nelson’s 29 captains were also Scottish, while the youngest person to take part in the battle was a 10-year-old boy from Leith.
Nearly 60 people from the Tayside area were involved, and the Woodland Trust has set up a website to help people discover if any of their ancestors took part in the battle.
www.treeforall.org.uk/ trafalgar/crewlist lets visitors search through a list of 18,000 names for their ancestors.
As well as providing basic information, such as name and place of birth, the website also gives details of each sailor’s physical appearance, family history and any injuries they sustained in battle.
Dundee has a special connection to Trafalgar. The Baxter Brothers, one of the city’s many jute firms, manufactured the sails on HMS Victory. |
