 Over 200 members were lost in the Great War and the club went from a national club to a local club and settled in Clydebank as its base in the early 1920s.Success was hard to come by, after the War many members just did not want to come back, the entire Committee (with two exceptions) were killed in the hostilities and the Depression meant that many had to work hard including weekends or leave the district in search of work.Nevertheless, the club built up gradually and just when they were starting to 'come good' the Second War came along.