Dr Guthries's School - Colonial Wars

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Reference WMO/287848

Address:

Guthrie House Care Home

Lasswade Road

Liberton

Edinburgh

EH16 6RZ

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
  • Colonial India
  • Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
About the memorial: Celtic style cross on a tapered plinth. The area around it was rather overgrown at the date of the recording visit in June 2009, and at some stage it has been turned around to face the wall rather than the school. For the concluding quotations in the dedication the first is based on the last three lines of Glasgow poet Thomas Campbell's "Lochiel's Warning" and the second is from the end of the Robert Burns poem "The Soldier's Return". It is not known if the school has a WW1 or WW2 memorial, and, if so, their fate after closure of the school. The school closed in 1985. The building is now a care home, so permission needed to access the memorial.
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Sacred to the Memory of the Boys /Educated in Dr Guthrie's Industrial Schools /Who fell /In India, Egypt, The Soudan, and South Africa /Fighting for their Queen, King and Country //"They fell with their faces to the veldt /and their feet to the foe /Leaving in battle no blot on their name /Looking proudly to heaven from their death-bed of fame" // "The brave poor sodger ne'er despise, /Nor count him as a stranger; /Remember he's his country's stay, /In day and hour of danger" //Erected with money collected for the purpose /William Henderson, Superintendant. October 19??//With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe! /And leaving in battle no blot on his name, /Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame." //The brave poor sodger ne'er despise, /Nor count him as a stranger; /Remember he's his country's stay, /In day and hour of danger"

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