Scottish War Memorials and Kilts

[Am Bàrd]

For Ron (Riverkilt)

The view from my place of work



Chris

I'm sick with jealousy. I look out the window and into the concrete wall of a Home Depot *sigh*. I need to get back to Scotland....

[tulloch]

WOW! Speechless.

[DWFII]

For Ron (Riverkilt)

The view from my place of work



Chris

Yes, and it is this statue alone which makes my TOS so special to me that I would have to say it is my go to choice for headwear, kilted or not.

[andyfg]

Chris I could have called in to see you!

[Redshank]

Chris I could have called in to see you!

too late now, you should have

[Stratherrick]

Privileged you!

Slainte

Bruce

[Pleater]

The Great War altered the average height of British adults - little fellows like my father's father survived, as they were rejected even for the 'Bantam Battalions'. Granddad was well under 5 ft tall.

I had several great aunts who never married - there were so few young men, and there had been a diptheria epidemic during the war, and then the influenza - the Spanish 'flu' - in 1918, so there was quite a lot of spinsters.

It is very ususual for a village not to have a war memorial - there was one, where ten young men had enlisted and died, but only nine by enemy action, one was court martialled and shot despite having served bravely and been wounded. When he was sent back he began acting oddly, and failed to obey orders.

After the war the authorities would not allow his name to be with the others, so the village did not have a memorial until a postumous pardon was granted and the memorial was set up with all the names inscribed upon it.

There is a war memorial is the churchyard at Sidmouth in Devon, where I go each year for the folk festival, and I sing 'The ladies go dancing at Whitsun' for those left behind. It is always a mass of flowers.

The memorials are often the only place to see the all the names, as so many bodies were never identified, and many were never found and had no proper burial.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[The Thing]

Spare a thought for the poor Irish soldiers of the British Army during the Great War, you drive through Irish villages, towns and cities and you'd hardly think Ireland was affected by the War. There are no memorials to the estimated 50,000 War dead in the first world war.
When they came back to Ireland they were jeered and spat upon, some 185 were murdered by Republicans during the war of Independence and Civil war.
A whole generation lost and no way for the famalies to grieve, to Ireland's shame and now it's too late to say sorry.
I was very moved when in Scotland and all the moving war memorials, it must be a gift indeed to remember the men who went off and thought they were doing what felt right to them and never got the chance to see their beautiful Homeland again.

[macwilkin]

Spare a thought for the poor Irish soldiers of the British Army during the Great War, you drive through Irish villages, towns and cities and you'd hardly think Ireland was affected by the War. There are no memorials to the estimated 50,000 War dead in the first world war.
When they came back to Ireland they were jeered and spat upon, some 185 were murdered by Republicans during the war of Independence and Civil war.
A whole generation lost and no way for the famalies to grieve, to Ireland's shame and now it's too late to say sorry.
I was very moved when in Scotland and all the moving war memorials, it must be a gift indeed to remember the men who went off and thought they were doing what felt right to them and never got the chance to see their beautiful Homeland again.

Well said, sir! Remember the lads of the 16th and 36th Divisions!

Todd

[Mael Coluim]

To Chris (Redshanks)

That's an awesome photo, friend!!

All,

When I visited the Black Watch Museum in Peth, I looked at the Roll of Honor for WWI and found that 123 Robertsons, 11 Malcolms and 8 MacCallums had fallen.