The Great War broke out on her 14th birthday and during the horrific conflict she would lose one of her beloved brothers. But despite her tender years Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was determined to play her own part in the First World War at her Scottish childhood home. Glamis in Angus was turned into a convalescent home for wounded soldiers and the then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon would write letters for injured soldiers and run errands from the local shops for them. Regal: The teenaged Queen Elizabeth (back row, third from right) with some of the soldiers she cared for during the First World War. One brother was killed during the war and another was a prisoner of war
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New exhibition shows how royal cared for those hurt in conflict
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She lost her beloved brother Fergus to the horrors of the war
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The compassion she learned there stayed with her throughout her life
But it is the images of a young @placeholder that in a way capture the spirit of an age where everybody - no matter who you were, or how old - contributed to the war effort.