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51st HIGHLAND DIVISION, PERTH

 
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:29 pm    Post subject: 51st HIGHLAND DIVISION, PERTH Reply with quote

Sited on the North Inch, Perth









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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Richard,
Superb photos - this was one on my list. What a delight it is to see someone else posting a photo of a Perthshire War Memorial!
Many thanks.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you think the Bruar memorial should get it's own thread? Both these memorials are copies of memorials in Europe, I believe they are also by the same sculptor.

They have both been posted on the forum


51st HD memorial Breville France -same as Bruar


51st HD Memorial Schijndel Holland - same as Perth

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Adam,

Yes I think the memorial should have its own thread and I will do this. It is located at House of Bruar by Blair Atholl.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some more images of this memorial

The Piper




He is a Gordon Highlanders



His 51st Division 'HD' flash and Gordon Tartan regimental flash.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The girl



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The plaque from the panel at the back. Note how it shows the infantry badges of the Division placed over their recruiting areas

5th (Caithness & Sutherland) Bn Seaforths at the top, the Seaforths, Camerons, Gordons, Black Watch and Argylls.

It also repeats the 'Friends are good on the day of battle' inscription from the Beaumont Hamel memorial

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And all the units in the Division. Both plaques seem to show men in shorts in some scenes and battledress in others to represent the service in North Africa, Sicily and North-West Europe.

From the plaque facing the Inch

Anti-Tank Platoons



Royal Army Medical Corps



Reconaissance Corps



Infantry - At El Alamein by the looks of it.



Royal Army Service Corps



Royal Army Chaplains Department



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the other plaque almost hidden by the shrubbery.

Royal Military Police



Royal Artillery



Royal Corps of Signals



Machine Gun battalion



Royal Engineers



Royal Engineers

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