Tour Scotland Photograph Norman Evelyn Leslie Memorial

Tour Scotland photograph of the Norman Evelyn Leslie Memorial in the graveyard cemetery in Leslie, Fife, Scotland. Colonel Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes, was born on the 13th of July 1877, and died on the 29th of March 1927. He was commissioned into a Militia battalion of the Devonshire Regiment in England in 1895. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1897 and resigned his commission in 1899. In 1905 he was appointed Captain in the Fife Royal Garrison Artillery, another Militia regiment. He resigned his commission in 1909. In 1911 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Highland Cyclist Battalion, which was badged to the Black Watch from Perthshire. During the First World War he fought gallantly, and Leslie House, the ancestral head seat of his family, became a hospital for the injured. His wife worked ceaselessly during the wartime, both at Leslie House and elsewhere, acting as nurse. Rothes was promoted Colonel in 1918. He sustained injuries during the war from which he never fully recovered. He sold the House in 1919. In 1927 he died, leaving behind the earldom to his eldest son.



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