POY'96: DUNBLANE, SCENE OF CLASSROOM MASS KILLING, CLASS PHOTO...POY12:PICTURES OF THE YEAR:DUNBLANE,SCOTLAND,DEC96 - UNDATED FILE PHOTO - Teacher Gwen Mayor pictured with her class of 5 and 6 year old pupils from Dunblane Primary School. Sixteen pupils from the class were killed after gunman Thomas Hamilton opened fire in the gym at the school March 13. (BW ONLY) sec/HO REUTERS...I...DIS
16 pupils and their teacher were murdered in the school gym in Dunblane (Picture: Reuters)

Today marks 20 years since the Dunblane massacre when 16 children and their teacher were gunned down in their classroom by Thomas Hamilton.

thumbnail for post ID 5737141 ‘I still live with the devastation’: Dunblane survivor recalls primary school massacre On March 13, 1996, the lives of the people in the small Scottish community were changed forever when he walked into the school gym and opened fire.

The massacre, which claimed the lives of five and six-year-olds in the Stirlingshire town, shocked the nation and led to the UK enforcing some of the strictest firearms legislation in the world.

Here we remember the pupils and their teacher through the simple gesture of publishing their names and pictures.

Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale

Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale

Sophie North

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Ross Irvine

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Mhairi Isabel MacBeath

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Melissa Hellen Currie

Melissa Hellen Currie

Megan Turner

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Kevin Hassell

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John Petrie

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Joanna Ross

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Hannah Scott

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Gwen Mayor (teacher)

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Emma Crozier

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Emily Morton

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David Kerr

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Charlotte Dunn

Charlotte Dunn

Brett McKinnon

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Abigail McLellan

Abigail McLellan