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Scottish war memorials
Scottish war memorials are found in all communities in Scotland. They are found on most main streets and in many churches in Scotland. Many commemorate the sacrifice of the First World War, but there are others to wars before and since the First World War.
The history of Scotland has often been bloody, and the nation has historically embodied a strong martial tradition. Scots have fought in many battles and served in armed forces in many parts of the world. This service has been as part of Scots armies, as mercenaries, and in the British Armed Forces. The service of the martial Scots is commemorated with war memorials across Scotland and around the world.
Scottish war memorials commemorate the sacrifices made by Scottish combatants as early as 1263 through the more recent war in Iraq and conflict in Afghanistan. The earliest memorials recorded the battles fought against Viking and English invaders, and subsequent ones commemorated Scottish civil wars stemmming from religious intolerance or the succession of royalty. Most of these early memorials were not erected until the 19th century, sometimes hundreds of years after the actual battles had taken place, and generally did not list the individual names of those lost in these wars.
By the late 19th century after several small colonial wars, the infantry and cavalry regiments of Scotland began erecting memorials in churches and garrison towns in Scotland. These memorials began listing the names of those killed in combat, sometimes featuring only officers, but occasionally naming non-commissioned officers and other enlisted men.
The first recorded civic war memorial in Scotland naming local men who died overseas in combat is located in the churchyard at Balmaclellan, and was erected after the Crimean War. It was not until fifty years later after the Second Boer War that other such civic war memorials were erected in Scotland.
By 1914, a precedent had been set for local communities to erect war memorials when they had lost their sons in combat. By the time the First World War culminated in 1918, nearly every community in Scotland had erected a memorial to their own war dead. Around the same time, a proposal for a national war memorial led to the creation of the shrine at Edinburgh Castle, the Scottish National War Memorial. This memorial continues to memorialize Scots who have died in wars since 1914, and currently commemorates 206,779 men and women who have died serving in UK and Commonwealth Forces.
At the same time as the civic and national memorials were being erected, factories, banks, golf clubs, boys' clubs, schools, universities, churches, railways, police, post offices, and even a prison erected war memorials to those men and women who had gone to war.
Because of the size of military formations during the First World War, there were not only regimental memorials erected but brigade and divisional memorials as well.
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Scottish war memorials
Scottish war memorials are found in all communities in Scotland. They are found on most main streets and in many churches in Scotland. Many commemorate the sacrifice of the First World War, but there are others to wars before and since the First World War.
The history of Scotland has often been bloody, and the nation has historically embodied a strong martial tradition. Scots have fought in many battles and served in armed forces in many parts of the world. This service has been as part of Scots armies, as mercenaries, and in the British Armed Forces. The service of the martial Scots is commemorated with war memorials across Scotland and around the world.
Scottish war memorials commemorate the sacrifices made by Scottish combatants as early as 1263 through the more recent war in Iraq and conflict in Afghanistan. The earliest memorials recorded the battles fought against Viking and English invaders, and subsequent ones commemorated Scottish civil wars stemmming from religious intolerance or the succession of royalty. Most of these early memorials were not erected until the 19th century, sometimes hundreds of years after the actual battles had taken place, and generally did not list the individual names of those lost in these wars.
By the late 19th century after several small colonial wars, the infantry and cavalry regiments of Scotland began erecting memorials in churches and garrison towns in Scotland. These memorials began listing the names of those killed in combat, sometimes featuring only officers, but occasionally naming non-commissioned officers and other enlisted men.
The first recorded civic war memorial in Scotland naming local men who died overseas in combat is located in the churchyard at Balmaclellan, and was erected after the Crimean War. It was not until fifty years later after the Second Boer War that other such civic war memorials were erected in Scotland.
By 1914, a precedent had been set for local communities to erect war memorials when they had lost their sons in combat. By the time the First World War culminated in 1918, nearly every community in Scotland had erected a memorial to their own war dead. Around the same time, a proposal for a national war memorial led to the creation of the shrine at Edinburgh Castle, the Scottish National War Memorial. This memorial continues to memorialize Scots who have died in wars since 1914, and currently commemorates 206,779 men and women who have died serving in UK and Commonwealth Forces.
At the same time as the civic and national memorials were being erected, factories, banks, golf clubs, boys' clubs, schools, universities, churches, railways, police, post offices, and even a prison erected war memorials to those men and women who had gone to war.
Because of the size of military formations during the First World War, there were not only regimental memorials erected but brigade and divisional memorials as well.
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