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Scottish war memorials are found in all communities in Scotland. They are found on most main streets and most churches in Scotland. Many commemorate the sacrifice of the First World War but there are many others to wars before and since 1914–1918 ==History of Scottish War Memorials== The history of Scotland has often been bloody and there is a martial tradition which is strong in Scotland. Scots have fought in many battles and served in armed forces in many parts of the world. This service has been part of Scots armies; as mercenaries, and in the British Armed Forces. The service of the martial Scots are commemorated with war memorials across Scotland and around the world. Scottish war memorials commemorate the sacrifices made as early as 1263 up to the recent war in Iraq and the conflict in Afghanistan The earliest memorials record the battles fought against Viking and English invaders. Later ones recall Scottish civil wars. Sometimes these civil wars are related to religious intolerance, sometimes over the succession of royalty. Most of these early memorials have the same thing in common. They were not erected until the 19th century, sometimes hundreds of years after the actual battle had taken place. Another thing they have in common is that they don’t list individual names. By the late nineteenth century after several small Colonial wars the Infantry and Cavalry regiments of Scotland had started to erect memorials in churches and garrison towns in Scotland. These memorials would now include lists of names. Sometimes just Officers, but sometimes Non-commissioned Officers and enlisted men The first recorded civic war memorial in Scotland where local men who died overseas in war and were named on a stone is in the local churchyard at Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway and was erected after the Crimean War. It was not until fifty years later after the Second Boer War that other civic war memorials were erected in Scotland. By 1914 a precedent had been set for local communities for erecting war memorials when they had lost their sons in war time. By the time the First World War had finished in 1918 nearly every community in Scotland decided to erect a memorial to their own war dead.〔Boorman, D (1988) “At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials”〕 At the same time a proposal for a national war memorial led to the creation of the magnificent shrine at Edinburgh Castle. The Scottish National War Memorial. This memorial continues to commemorate Scots who have died in wars since 1914 and currently commemorates 206,779 〔Report to the Trustees of the Scottish National War Memorial, 2008〕 men and women who have died serving in UK and Commonwealth Forces. At the same time as the civic and national memorials were being erected factories,〔Article on the Unveiling of the North British Rubber Company War Memorial in ‘The Scotsman’ – Friday, 14 April 1922, page 3〕 banks,〔Article on the Unveiling of the British Linen Bank War Memorial, Edinburgh in ‘The Scotsman’ of 7 November 1923〕 golf clubs,〔Article on the Unveiling of the Bruntsfield Links Golf Club War Memorial, Edinburgh in ‘The Scotsman’ of 14 February 1921〕 boys clubs,〔Article on the Unveiling of the Boy's Brigade War Memorial at St Stephen's United Free Church in ‘The Scotsman’ of 21 January 1921 〕 schools,〔Article on the Unveiling of the Leith Academy War Memorial in ‘The Scotsman’ of 19 September 1921 〕 universities 〔Article on the Unveiling of the Aberdeen University War Memorial in ‘The Scotsman’ of 29 September 1921〕 churches,〔Article on the Unveiling of the Dalmeny Street United Free Church War Memorial, Edinburgh ‘The Scotsman’ of 23 November 1921〕 railways,〔Article on the Unveiling of the Caledonian Railway Company, War Memorial, Glasgow in ‘The Scotsman’ of 16 November 1921,〕 police,〔Article on the Unveiling of the Dunbartonshire Police War Memorial in ‘The Scotsman’ of 25 October 1921〕 post offices 〔Article on the Unveiling of the Edinburgh & District Post Office War Memorial in ‘The Scotsman’ of 12 December 1921〕 and even a prison 〔Recorded by the (Scottish War Memorial Project )〕 erected war memorials to those men and women who had gone to war. Because of the size of military formations during the First World War there were not only regimental memorials erected but Scottish Brigade and Scottish Divisional memorials too. After the Second World War many communities had the sad task of adding names to their existing war memorial.〔Boorman, D (1990) “For your tomorrow: British Second World War Memorials”〕 Aberlady, East Lothian used the same memorial they had erected for the Boer War and used again for the First World War to list their Second World War Dead. Other communities chose to erect new memorials for the Second World War Dead rather than change the First World War Memorial. Even today communities are still erecting war memorials to men and women who died in the First and Second World Wars. Recent unveilings of Scottish war memorials include. * The civic war memorials at Waterloo, Lanarkshire and Cowie, Stirling. * The Air Forces Memorial at Grangemouth * The Black Watch memorial at Balhousie Castle, Perth * “Buckhaven’s Secret”, Fife * ‘Bamse’ Memorial to the Norwegian Navy dog at Montrose * WW1 Nurses' Memorial at Central Library, Edinburgh, unveiled on 11th November, 2015 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scottish war memorials」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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