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Royal Scots Monument

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East side of the gardens, alongside The Mound, just South of "The Cottage"., Princes Street Gardens, Princes Street, Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, Lothian, EH2 2EL, Scotland

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NT 25334 73761

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Composite
WMR Reference Number: 53589
Description: A sequence of linked monoliths, joined in a curve by a bronze grille, depicting dress and equipment of the Regiment throughout their history and the regimental badge and battle honours.
Inscription: "It is not for the Glory nor Riches neither is it for Honours that we fight but it is for the sake of Liberty which no true man loseth at the cost of his life." (List of Battle Honours) On a first wall- the regimental badge flanked by battle honours between 1680 and 1943 On a second wall- Tablet 1-THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED UNDER/THE BEQUEST OF CAMPBELL SMITH S S C/EDINBURGH A PIONEER OF THE ROYAL/SCOTS CLUB AND A GREAT FRIEND OF/THE REGIMENT. IT WAS UNVEILED BY/HRH THE PRINCESS ROYAL CIG CVO/GBE TD COLONEL IN CHIEF ON THE/26TH OF JULY IN THE FIRST YEAR OF/THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH Tablet 2-ON 28TH MARCH 2006, 373 YEARS TO THE/DAY SINCE KING CHARLES I SIGNED/THE WARRANT TO RAISE THE REGIMENT./THE ROYAL SCOTS (THE ROYAL REGIMENT)/MERGED WITH THE OTHER SURVIVING/SCOTTISH INFANTRY REGIMENTS TO FORM/THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF SCOTLAND./OUR UNBROKEN HISTORY AND SERVICE TO/SOVEREIGN AND COUNTRY LIVES ON IN THE/1ST BATTALION OF THE NEW REGIMENT Tablet 3- WEST GERMANY: BERLIN: KOREA: EGYPT: CYPRUS/SUEZ: LIBYA: RADFAN: ADEN: NORTHERN IRELAND:/FALKLAND ISLANDS: THE GULF: BOSNIA: IRAQ Beside this wall-1918 1965/H.R.H. THE PRINCESS ROYAL/COLONEL-IN-CHIEF/THE ROYAL SCOTS (THE ROYAL REGIMENT)/FOR FORTY SEVEN YEARS/THIS STONE WAS UNVEILED BY/HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN/ON 1ST JULY 1968 (side of the wall)- HRH/THE PRINCESS ROYAL/KG KT GCVO/COLONEL-IN-CHIEF/1983-2006/UNVEILED THE FINAL/ADDITIONS/TO THIS MONUMENT/ON/9 MAY 2007

Commemoration

War: Non-Specific Conflict

History

Maker(s): Sir Frank Charles Mears, Architect
Mr Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson, Sculptor
Gerard & Sons, Builder

Ceremonies

Unveiled

26 July 1952

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal (1897-1965), Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment

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Royal Scots Monument

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Royal Scots Monument

Current Location

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Memorial Details

Commemoration

History

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