The Bank of Scotland

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Reference WMO/258822

Address:

The Mound

Edinburgh

EH1 1YZ

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Raised
About the memorial: The memorial was placed in the entrance hall of the Bank’s head office on the Mound in Edinburgh, where it remains today. The bronze panels and embellishments are framed by a backdrop of Egyptian green marble. At the base is a replica of military arms and equipment ‘now laid aside’. At the top is a circular plaque of Victory with a sword ‘entwined with laurel and mourning over the heroic dead’. The inscription above the panels reads:
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This Memorial is placed here by the Bank of Scotland in grateful appreciation of the services with His Majesty’s Forces of 601 members of the Court of Directors and Staff during the Great War 1914-1919: colleagues in peace and companions in arms, their names are recorded in a Roll of Honour treasured in the archives of the Bank, and in lasting commemoration of 87 of them who laid down their lives for their country and the cause of freedom. Their names are here inscribed that their memory may be held in constant honour.

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