The Quintinshill rail disaster occurred on 22 May in Scotland near Gretna Green. It involved five trains and killed a probable 226 and injured 246, mainly Territorial soldiers from the 1/7th (Leith) Battalion, the Royal Scots heading for Gallipoli.
Description: Black and white photograph of the burned out remains of a railway carriage at the scene of the Quintinshill rail disaster
Date: 22 May 1915
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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