Edinburgh - Scottish National War Memorial -postcard 1938 Exhibition slogan pmk

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh
• Publisher:  Photochrom Ltd.
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 1&half d. brown
• Postmark(s):  Edinburgh 18 July 1938 'Empire Exhibition Glasgow' advertising slogan postmark
• Sent to:  S.; P. Sherrington, esq, Esymead (?) Road, Berkhampstead, Herts.
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The Scottish National War Memorial is located in Edinburgh Castle, and commemorates Scottish soldiers, and those serving with Scottish regiments, who died in the two world wars and in more recent conflicts. The monument was formally opened in 1927. It is housed in a redeveloped barrack block in Crown Square, at the heart of the castle, and incorporates numerous monuments.

Proposals for a Scottish National War Memorial were put forward in 1917, during the First World War, by John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl, and Capt George Swinton of Kimmerghame. The architect Sir Robert Lorimer was appointed in 1919, but opposition to a large-scale monument arose from the Cockburn Association and others concerned with the castle's heritage. Lorimer was one of the architects involved in the Imperial War Graves Commission.^[1]

A more modest scheme to remodel the North Barrack Block was finally agreed in 1923, and the memorial was formally opened on 14 July 1927 by the Prince of Wales, the architecture including two elements (as here shown, namely the shrine and the entrance on each side, these being evidently directly related in both format and architectural relationship) by the creator, the architect Sir Robert Lorimer, and specifically designed with particular elements of a unique character with this perhaps having been done in connection with numerous other historical and architectural elements within the United Kingdom as a whole and including in particular the monarchy both the Prince of Wales and at the opening the King and the Queen who also contributed certain significant architectural elements at the time of the opening, it being the Prince of Wales himself who opened the memorial in 1927 (this possibllity not however it seems having been in any way up to the present time, 2012,either demonstrated or suggested notwithstanding that there are certain contemporary postcards including in particular one showing a memorial immediately adjacent but at a lower level in Edinburgh ""Spirit of 1914"" which seem in various ways to confirm this possibility together with other contemporary postcards in both Scotland and England, in particular the Newcastle War Memorial which shows Newcastle troops of 1915 but with the title 'The Response 1914' directly in line with Edinburgh when in point of fact in 1915 they marched off to the south to the railway station).^[2]

After the Second World War and notwithstanding the character of the memorial in a point of law and from its origin as a Registered (Scottish) Charity (No. SC009869) 50,000 names were added to the rolls of honour with names still being added from successive conflicts; however, the memorial itself has been left unchanged.^[2]

The memorial's exterior is decorated with gargoyles and sculpture, while the interior contains monuments to the individual regiments. The stained-glass windows are by Douglas Strachan.^[3]

For various possible possible reasons as indicated in the foregoing paragraph on the original 'development' and which contains references to UK war memorials as indicated (including in particular one which in effect relates to the world as a whole) the memorial in the Shrine contains British Empire connections. Its more evident original aims were to commemorate Scots and those serving with Scottish regiments who had died in the First World War, from the war's declaration to the treaty of Versailles of 28 June 1919 (confirmed military suicides and those tried and executed are not included within the roll). Upon the altar within the Shrine there is a sealed casket containing the Rolls of Honour which list over 147,000 names of those soldiers killed in the First World War together with open lists within the Hall, the inclusion of any name in the Hall having been apparently a matter within the discretion of those considered immediately concerned.^[4]

As stated here in the introduction, the memorial must be held to include certain features relating to Europe as a whole even if these are not in a documentary form. It also happens (in this same regard, and including both east and west of Europe) to be directly connected with the original site of the volcano in the Castle, for some centuries out of action, and with its uppermost point used as the place for the First World War list of names in the newly provided Shine in the war memorial by the United Kingdom monarchy at the time that it was opened.

So far as the Second World War is concerned an event in this respect was the direct involvement of both civilians and military, including those of the United States, in 1944 with the entirely natural eruption in Italy of a volcano, namely Mount Vesuvius,^[5] although this likewise has not it seems been commented upon in this sense to the present date notwithstanding it could be something that might prove of interest as a quite evidently historically significant coincidence in connection with the centenary celebrations of both world wars and their possible connection with both nature and Christianity, this being something which is likely to be understood as in every sense a complicated issue and which perhaps should try to be done at a European level by the Council of Europe as from the date at which the commencement has already been decided upon with of course due consultation at the national level of each country (this particular memorial being one managed within the United Kingdom by a charitable trust).^[6]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=scotland

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period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

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