WATCH: Today we know it as a luxury hotel, but 100 years ago Mar Hall looked very different

Remembrance Sunday has some more significance than usual as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

Published 9th Nov 2018

Remembrance Sunday has some more significance than usual as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

Between 1914 and 1918, more than seventeen million soldiers and civilians were killed and around seven hundred thousand British soldiers lost their lives.

Liam Ross goes behind the scenes at the war veteran charity Erskine and at its former base at Mar Hall:

Today it is best known as a luxurious five-star hotel - a place where showbiz A-listers hang out when they come to Glasgow, but a hundred years ago the Mar Hall Hotel beside the Clyde was very different.

The rooms were not filled with fresh flowers and champagne on ice but rows of basic beds occupied by soldiers maimed by the fighting on the western front.

The soldiers, it turns out, were the first residents at what was designed as a grand stately home...

Shipbuilders from Yarrows on the Clyde docks were drafted in to help make prosthetic limbs to for the soldiers but while this building might have left those days behind the legacy carries on.

After the Armistice, the Princess Louise Hospital for limbless soldiers and sailors became the Erskine hospital.

Today the charity has expanded across Scotland and is known simply as Erskine but it still does vital work supporting today’s veterans.