George Heriot's School

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George Heriot's School

Lauriston Place

Edinburgh

EH3 9EQ

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Rock/Rough Stone Rock/Rough Stone
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Composite memorial in the school grounds where you need permission to take pictures. WW1 - Two stepped octagonal base with octagonal plinth, and column with sculpture on top. Bronze plaques set into side of the plinth.; WW2 - Wall behind the WW1 memorial with 5 bronze plaques- 3 of them have 2 columns of names each, the other two have 3 columns of names each. They are spaced alternately in the wall. The dates are at either end of the top of the wall, the dedication is below the 2nd and 4th (the 3 column) plaques. War Memorials Online records this as a single war memorial because they appear designed to sit together whereas IWM's War Memorials Register treats them as two different war memorials under their criteria see Links.”
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WW1 - 6 o'clock face in the stonework- [the school badge and motto- 'Distribute chearfullie]/TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY/OF THE FORMER PUPLIS AND/STAFF OF THIS SCHOOL WHO/FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO/RETURNED NOT AGAIN ARE/HEREIN INSCRIBED TO THEIR/HONOUR FOR EVERMORE/1914-1919 Around the top of the base- DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Plaque 1: [names Adlam to Chisholm] Plaque 2: [names Christison to A R Forsyth] Plaque 3: [names C E c Forsyth to Kerr] Plaque 4: [names Kilpatrick to Moorhead] Plaque 5: [names Morgan to N Sinclair] Plaque 6: [names R Sinclair to the end] Plaque 7: [a smaller plaque on the reverse] [9 extra names]. WW2 - Either end of the top of the wall- 1939 1945 Below the 2nd plaque carved into the wall- TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY /OF THE FORMER PUPILS AND/STAFF OF THIS SCHOOL WHO/FELL IN THE WAR 1939-1945 Below the 4th plaque carved into the wall-THESE SAW THEIR DUTY PLAIN/THEIR LIVES THEY GAVE FOR/FREEDOM, TRUTH AND RIGHT Plaque 1: [names Aitken to Chalmers] Plaque 2: [names Clow to Johnston] Plaque 3: [names Johnstone to MacNab] Plaque 4: [names McPake to Sharp] Plaque 5: [names Shaw to Young]

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