Black Watch, pre 1859


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Reference WMO/278883

Address:

Dunkeld Cathedral

Cathedral Street

Dunkeld

PH8 0AW

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Crimean War (1853-1856)
  • Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
  • Seven Years War (1756-1763)
  • 18th Century Wars
  • 19th Century Wars
About the memorial: At the base a rectangular grey stone tablet on a low plinth , bearing the incised dedication . Surmounting the tablet a high relief trophy of arms in white stone with fallen soldiers , a cannon with a broken wheel , furled standards and a standing soldier with head bowed , all the soldiers in highland dress . The trophy of arms has on each side a circular column and at the top a canopy of three convex curved arches .
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IN MEMORY OF/THE OFFICERS NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATE SOLDIERS/OF THE 42ND ROYAL HIGHLANDERS THE BLACK WATCH WHO FELL IN WAR /FROM THE CREATION OF THE REGIMENT TO THE CLOSE OF THE INDIAN MUTINY 1859/ THE 10 INDEPENDENT COMPANIES OF THE FREAGADAN DUBH OR BLACK WATCH WERE FORMED INTO A REGIMENT ON THE/ 25TH OCTOBER 1739 AND THE FIRST MUSTER TOOK PLACE MAY 1740, IN A/ FIELD BETWEEN TAYBRIDGE AND ABERFELDY/ HERE `MONG THE HILLS THAT NURSED EACH HARDY GAEL OUR NATIVE MARBLE/ TELLS THE SOLDIERS TALE/ ART'S MAGIC POWER EACH PERISHED FRIEND RECALLS AND HEROES HAUNT THESE OLD CATHEDRAL WALLS/ ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE CORPS 1872/ FONTENOY FLANDERS TICONDEROGA MARTINIQUE GUADELOUPE HAVANNAH EGYPT CORUNNA FUENTES D'ONOR PYRENEES NIVELLE NIVE ORTHES TOULOUSE PENINSULA WATERLOO ALMA SEVASTOPOL LUCKNOW/

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