Armistice Day War Memorial North Inch Park On Visit To Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Armistice Day travel video, with Scottish music, of the 51st Highland Division War Memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire. The memorial was made by Alan Herriot and is of a little Dutch girl welcoming her Highland liberator with a posy of flowers. Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning, the " eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month " of 1918. The date is a national holiday in France, and was declared a national holiday in many Allied nations. In the United States, Veterans Day honours American veterans, both living and dead. Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War. The 51st Highland Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought on the Western Front in France during the First World War from 1915 to 1918. The division was raised in 1908, upon the creation of the Territorial Force, as the Highland Division and later 51st Highland Division from 1915. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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