One of the last inhabitants of remote St Kilda has died at the age of 88 after a heart attack.
Norman John Gillies was evacuated along with other residents when he was just five.
Islanders abandoned the archipelago in 1930 because of food shortages and an outbreak of influenza.
Mr Gillies, a former naval signalman, whose wartime duties included the defence of shipping lanes in the English Channel, never forgot his birthplace.
He lived in a house called St Kilda in a village near Ipswich.
He also took part in a National Trust for Scotland work party in 1976 which renovated the stone houses where residents had lived.
And he and his family made a trip to Hirta in 2005 on the 75th anniversary of evacuation and visited the house where he was born.
It was the death of Mr Gillies’ mother and baby sister which led to the departure of the final 31 islanders.
There were problems getting Mary Gillies off the island to hospital and although she later gave birth in Glasgow’s Stobhill Hospital, she and her baby daughter died within days.
The island’s nurse successfully encouraged islanders to petition the government requesting the evacuation.
In 2005, Mr Gillies said: “Generation after generation of my family lived there until 1930 when we were taken off. It was very sad for the older people like my grandmother who was in her 60s. The island suffered a great depopulation after many locals were enticed by visions of an easier life.
“But there was also one or two bad harvests. Gradually several young men left to go to Glasgow. My uncle left in 1927 and became a minister in Canada.”
He said that life was hard for islanders but that the spirit of co-operation helped them survive.