A Son of the Rock

I must confess to feeling some unease at viewing and photographing these memorials to colonial wars such as the ones on Stirling and Edinburgh Castle esplanades.

This one is in Station Square, Inverness, facing on to Academy Street and seems to commemorate both the Anglo-Egyptian and the Mahdist Wars. The front is marked for Tel-el-Kebir.

These two sides are marked with Khartoum, Egypt and Ginniss:-

As well as Tel-el-Kebir we have Atbara and Khosheh:-

The Memorial has a sphinx squatting at the soldier’s foot.