The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Scots Guards Hotel in Edinburgh

Found this on the Edinburgh Evening News website about plans to turn a guesthouse in Haymarket into a Scots Guards themed hotel. It's stretching it a bit I know but would it count as a war memorial?

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=382582007

Adam

DerekR · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:46 am Post subject:

Adam,

Check this out for a precedent: THE ROYAL SCOTS CLUB
"The club is a living memorial to those who served in the Royal Scots"

At the end of The Great War, when other regiments were considering erecting monuments to their Fallen, a Royal Scot Officer decided that a Club for all ranks would be the best way to honour the memory of 11,162 Royal Scots who had been killed. His name was Colonel The Lord Henry Scott, the younger son of the sixth Duke of Buccleuch.

After World War II, a second Book of Remembrance was placed in the Memorial Cabinet at the Club Members Entrance with the names of the 1,231 Members of the Regiment who lost their lives in that conflict.
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Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:16 am Post subject:

It's a slightly different situation with the Royal Scots Club being built as war memorial as well as having some plaques and RoHs inside. This is a hotel which will use the Scots Guards as a theme but because of that could be seen as a memorial to them. Confused

Incidentally I don't know why the Royal Scots have two Great War memorials, the club in the city and the gates at Glencorse barracks.

Adam