51st Highland Division Black Watch Liberation

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Reference WMO/213451

Address:

Garden of Remembrance

North Inch

Charlotte Street

Perth

PH1 5LW

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Group sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Commemoration of participants of the 51st Highland Division in both world wars and peace following 1945. Depicts a soldier receiving a flower from a girl as thanks for Europe's liberation. Plaques depicting battle scenes on either side of base as well as details on sloping side. Rough hewn base surmounted by two figures. One is a Highlander piper who is being handed a rose taken from a bunch of flowers held in the arms of a Dutch girl. Dedicatory tablet with carved inscription in black lettering has been placed on the front face of the base and a tablet listing the battle honours of the regiment has been placed at the rear of the memorial. An additional tablet describing the symbolism of the memorial is placed by the steps which lead up to the memorial. Two bronze relief plaques have been placed on the sides of the base. One depicts a montage of soldiers in action. In the foreground is a radio operator with two men manning a machine gun to the right of him. In the background is an officer giving directions, a gun crew in the centre and what looks like Royal Engineers on the right. In the background are three soldeirs patrolling across a bridge. The other plaque depicts, left to right, a gun, an armoured personnel carrier, a tank, medics treating a wounded man, a piper playing the pipes as he goes into battle with two soldiers running in the background behind him, a chaplain at a burial service and three lorries at a depot.
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Front face: THIS MEMORIAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO ALL WHO SERVED/ IN THE 51ST HIGHLAND DIVISION IN TWO WORLD/ WARS./ IT SYMBOLIZES THE LIBERATION OF OUR EUROPEAN/ ALLIES FROM OCCUPATION AND REPRESSION IN 1945/ AND COMMEMORATES THE FIFTY YEARS OF PEACE/ THAT HAVE FOLLOWED Rear face: 1908 51st highland Division Regimental Battle Honours 1967/ (Battle honours)/ 13th May 1995/ A Gift From The Citizens of Perth and Kinross District. Unveiled By Provost Mrs Jean McCormack JP Tablet by the steps: Tunes and Flowers/ One metre plus twelve years, the gap between/ a soldier and a girl, both cast in bronze./ He stands, suspicious, tired of the business/ of war. She offers thanks as best she can,/ a rose picked from thebunch tucked in her arm./ Silent bagpipes droop from his crooked arm;/ their lung exhausted by battle refrians./ His look extends beyond her outstretched hand/ towards the lasting bloom whitin her eyes,/ which gaze past gratutude into a world/ where she will shine. Their gap is closing fast;/ both know that liberation bears a price/ beyond the measure of tunes and flowers./ Andrew Greaver

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