Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph people walking on the road to Munlochy, Scotland. Munlochy is a small Scottish village, in northern Scotland, lying at the head of Munlochy Bay. There are few early records of a settlement, but it seems likely that Munlochy expanded in the 1760s due to quarry workers extracting stone nearby to build Fort George on the far side of the Moray Firth.
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Tour Scotland video of Remembrance Sunday on sunset visit outside of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In Flanders fields the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row. That mark our place; and in the sky. The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,. Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD, born November 30, 1872, died January 28, 1918, was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem " In Flanders Fields ". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war.
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Tour Scotland video of the Shetland Pony, Lance Corporal Cruachan, Mascot of the Royal Regiment of Scotland outside St John's Kirk on Remembrance Sunday visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The official mascot is a Shetland pony named Cruachan. He was originally the regimental mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders prior to the amalgamation. The first pony mascot was presented to the Argylls in 1929 by HRH Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll and named after Ben Cruachan, a mountain in the Argylls' namesake lieutenancy, and the war cry of Clan Campbell, of whom the Duke of Argyll was chief. The current mascot is Cruachan IV and was presented in late 2012. The nine year old pony made headlines across the globe when he was caught on camera trying to eat the flowers of the Queen during a visit at Stirling Castle. Since taking on the job, Cruachan has led countless parades and attended hundreds of regimental events all over the world, including many in the presence of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family.
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Tour Scotland video of bagpipes music from pipe bands on Remembrance Sunday on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Remembrance Sunday is held in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth as a day " to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts. "
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Tour Scotland Armistice Day video of the 51st Highland Division War Memorial on visit to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The memorial was made by Alan Herriot and is of a little Dutch girl welcoming her Highland liberator with a posy of flowers.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice, on 11th November 1918, to signal the end of World War One. 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.
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