Old travel Blog photograph of the memorial to the Royal Scots Greys in Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. This equestrian bronze depicts a Royal Scots Dragoon Guard, Carabinier and Greys, in uniform with bearskin hat, sword and rifle, it is by William Birnie Rhind, born 1853, died 1933, and was unveiled by the Earl of Rosebery on the 16th November 1906. The eagle insignia on the plaque was adopted by the regiment, after Ensign Ewart captured it from the French at the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Plaques to commemorate the regimental fallen in two World Wars, 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945 were added later.
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