Old College and War Memorial, Edinburgh
Posted in Architecture, Edinburgh, War Memorials at 12:00 on 17 August 2022
The Talbot Rice Gallery (see posts here and here) is housed in part of the Old College, Edinburgh.
On the way out I happened upon a War Memorial to the former alumni of Old College, set into the wall behind its entrance facade
Old College:-
From side. War Memorial wreaths behind:-
I could not get the whole of the memorial into one photo. Nor indeed two. Both of those below are stitches of two.
War Memorial Wall 1914-1918 names. Dedicated “MCMXIV To the glorious memory of the alumni of this University who fell in the Great War MCMXIX.”:-
World War 2 names. Stones to side inscribed 1939 and 1945:-
Tags: Architecture, Edinburgh, First World War, Second World War, Talbot Rice Gallery, the Great War, War Memorials, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
John Keaveney
10 February 2025 at 20:07
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