pferguson | May 30, 2021
…which can sting if disturbed During the Great War the 25 battalions of the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) lost 8,960 soldiers and more than 20,000 wounded. Their title, the Black Watch, is derived from the dark colour of their tartan and further honours the regiment’s original role as the watch of the Highlands. The regiment’s […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 10/11 November 1914, Alan Herriot, Black Watch, Black Watch Corner, John Ripley VC, Menin Gate War Memorial, Polygon Wood, Royal Highlanders, Statue, Victoria Cross
pferguson | November 12, 2012
The Wedding of Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon That dear lady, the late Queen Mother was married to the Duke of York, later King George VI, at Westminster Abbey April 26, 1923. As she entered the Abbey she quite unexpectedly laid her bouquet of flowers at the tomb of the British Unknown Warrior. Her act […]
Category: Our Thoughts, Pipers of War |
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Tags: Battle of Loos, Black Watch, Bouquet of Flowers, Bowes-Lyon Family, Charles Lindsay Claude Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Fergus Bowes-Lyon, Flowers, Gavin Patrick Bowes-Lyon, Great War, Grenadier Guards, John Patrick Bowes-Lyon, Loos Memorial, Quarry Cemetery (Vermelles - France), Remembrance, Scots Guards, Unknown Warrior
