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Old Photograph Prince Of Wales Unveiling Scottish War Memorial Edinburgh Scotland
Old photograph of the Prince of Wales unveiling the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. 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 in Highland Perthshire, and Captain George Swinton of Kimmerghame. Sir Robert Lorimer, one of the architects involved in the Imperial War Graves Commission, was appointed in 1919, but opposition to a large scale monument arose from the Cockburn Association and others concerned with the castle's heritage. 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. After the Second World War 50,000 names were added to the rolls of honour. Names continue to be added from successive conflicts, however the memorial itself has been left unchanged.
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