Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Sculptured / Cast figure
- District
- City Of Edinburgh
- Town
- Edinburgh
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902), First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Korean War (1950-1953), Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998), Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16 November 1906
Attended by: Earl of Rosebery KG PC
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 53588
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Current location
Princes Street West Gardens
Princes Street
opposite the junction with Frederick Street
Edinburgh
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
EH2 2HG
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 25203 73799
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Equestrian statue in bronze, of a Trooper of the Regiment in full review order of 1899, on a rock pedestal bearing bronze plaques with inscriptions and regimental badges.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock face: IN MEMORY OF/ OFFICERS NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN/ THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE BOER WAR 1899-1902/ (Names)/ IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THOSE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ (Names) 9 o' clock face: IN MEMORY OF/ OFFICERS NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS & MEN/ THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED IN 1906/ IN MEMORY OF THE ROYAL SCOT GREYS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA/ DURING THE BOER WAR 1899 TO 1902/ TABLETS WERE ADDED AFTER THE THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 TO 1918/ AND AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 TO 1945/ IN 1971 THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS AMALGAMATED WITH/ THE 3RD CARABINERS TO FORM/ THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS/ (CARABINERS AND GREYS) 12 o' clock face: IN MEMORY OF/ OFFICERS NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS & MEN/ THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ IN MEMORY OF/ THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE COUNTRY SINCE 1945/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 76
Served and returned: 0
Died: 76
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, decorations
Order of information: Rank, surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 157
Served and returned: 0
Died: 157
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, regiment, additional, decorations
Order of information: Rank, surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 158
Served and returned: 0
Died: 158
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, year died ,regiment, decorations
Order of information: Rank, surname - Korean War (1950-1953)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, year died, place of death
Order of information: Undefined - Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, year died, place of death
Order of information: Undefined - Iraq War (2003-2011)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, year of death, place of death
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Sculpture
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Pedestal
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Sculpture
- Condition
- ROYAL SCOTS GREYS
- WMO ID: 130559
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 01-10-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- In 2015 a War Memorials Trust grant of £35,190 was offered to eight different war memorials in Edinburgh for repair and conservation works. Following completion of the works in 2016 a grant of £27,600 was awarded as costs were lower than anticipated. so £3,450 for each memorial. The works to the Royal Scots Grey memorial dealt with extensive bird droppings on the bronze figure which was causing damage to the bronze. Weathering had also led to other areas of corrosion on the metal plaques and sculpture. The stone plinth had a build-up of biological growth with cracked or missing mortar in many of the joints. To address these issues works were undertaken to clean the bronze figure and plaques before a protective wax was applied. The stone stonework was appropriately cleaned with steam and the joints were re-pointed with a lime mortar.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Edinburgh City Council
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=886&mforum=warmemscot
- Carter Postcard Collection
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James 264 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
- Other website stonechaser.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/royal-scots-greys-edinburgh.html
- Other website www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_buildings_r/0_buildings_-_royal_scots_greys_0.htm
- War Memorials Trust Bulletin 70, August 2016, page 8 for grant aided repairs under the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund
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