A Son of the Rock

A very fine example this. In a great setting on a bluff overlooking the river Forth.

I like the way it has the various theatres of war the fighting took place on its sides. Inscribed on the stone facing us are the names France, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Gallipoli. The metal plaque below commemorates Second World War dead. The south side has the usual “To Our Glorious Dead.”

Here’s the opposite view.

On the stone facing us are the names Salonica, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Africa. (It was a World War for Empire troops.) Again the small metal plaque commemorates Second World War dead. The larger plaque facing north names the dead of the Great War.