American War Memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
Posted in Edinburgh, War Memorials at 12:00 on 9 August 2018
This is situated in the west end of Princes Street Gardens.
From west:-
The wording below the frieze reads, “If it be life that waits I shall live forever unconquered if death I shall die at last strong in my pride and freedom.”
From east:-
Central figure. The inscription on the plinth reads, “The Call 1914. A Tribute. From Men and Women of Scottish Blood and Sympathies In the United States of AMERICA to SCOTLAND.”
“A People that jeoparded their lives unto the Death in the High Places of the Field.” Judges V 18:-
Information plaque; situated to the east side of the memorial as a whole:-