The Weeping Window installation of ceramic poppies at St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney (Danny Lawson/PA)

A hundred years after the First World War armistice was signed, here is a look at Scotland’s part in the conflict in numbers:

24 – bombs dropped by German airships on Edinburgh on the night of April 2 1916. Thirteen people were killed.

74 – Scots who were awarded the Victoria Cross – the highest award for gallantry for any Commonwealth soldier.

4,500 – German civilians and prisoners of war detained at Stobs internment camp near Hawick in the Scottish Borders.

105,000 – Scots-born men killed fighting for the British armed forces in the war. A further 15,000 died fighting for the dominion forces.

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72 – German warships scuttled while interned at Scapa Flow after the armistice. The order came from German commander Admiral Ludwig von Reuter who feared the ships would be divided among the allied powers.

226 – People killed when a train packed with troops bound for Gallipoli collided with a local passenger service at Quintinshill near Gretna in May 1915. A further 246 were injured in what remains Britain’s worst rail disaster.

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