The research process
These images were produced by our VIP team in spring 2026, to illustrate the challenges, fun and serendipity of trying to track down historic students at St Andrews. They give a good sense of the sorts of sources we use.
You can read about
- Hew Hunter Bonar (~1883-1942), schoolmaster
- John Donald Stewart Menzies (1894-1941), fought in World War I
- William Maddin Scott (~1894-1962), fought in World War I, and ran his family mill in Ireland
- Fridtjof Kjelsberg (b.1897), a Swiss PhD student in Chemistry
