1918 – Mona’s Story

Mona’s Story – narrated by Marie Clare Munro


Mona Tweedie, (daughter of Commodore Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie – in command of the Grand Fleet destroyer flotillas), now Macmillan, describes her time, as a young girl, living in what is now the “Three Bridges Hotel” in South Queensferry in 1917/18 when she was aged eight. It gives an interesting perspective of party frocks, picnics with the might of the Grand Fleet looming just off the beach.

She also describes the events of the Armistice and Surrender of the German Fleet.


This is an extract from “Mona’s Story, an Admiral’s Daughter in England, Scotland and Africa, 1908-51” by Mona Macmillan. Edited by Hugh Macmillan (her son).

You can listen to other audio accounts of the surrender from her father Commodore Tweedie, Lord Cameron, and Midshipman Adam who served with the 20th flotilla of mine-laying destroyers out of Immingham.

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1. Arriving in South Queensferry

2. The Navy in the Forth

3. 1918 – Life in South Queensferry

4. November 1918 – The Armistice and Surrender of the German Fleet

5. End of the War


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