The Black Watch Memorial

At the junction of Market Street and North Bank Street

Black Watch Monument  -  Detail

The Black Watch Monument at the corner of Market Street and North Bank Street

©  Peter Stubbs   peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                                                      Photo taken 9 October 2005

 

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    The Black Watch Monument at the corner of Market Street and North Bank Street ©

The Black Watch Monument

The Royal Highland Regiment, the oldest of the Scottish Highland units became known as The Black Watch because of the dark colour of their tartan - mainly blacks, greens and blues.

The Regiment was raised in Aberfeldy in Perthshire in 1739.

This inscription appears on the west side of the Black Watch Monument:

TO THE MEMORY OF

OFFICERS

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS & MEN

OF

THE BLACK WATCH

WHO FELL IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR

1899-1902

 

 

 

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