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Field Visit
Date 24 September 2002
Event ID 613456
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/613456
Group of four over-life-size soldiers overlook passers by from a corniced stone base built into the centre of the east parapet of the North Bridge. The central officer stands in his open greatcoat gazing to his right and holding binoculars in his right hand, his left hand on the rock behind and his left knee slightly forward. To his right, two helmeted soldiers, the front one propping himself up with his right elbow and hand on a rock, his left holding a rifle along the ground; the kneeling soldier behind him holds his rifle at an angle in front of his officer's coat and looks out to his right. The bare-headed young man on the right of the group, seated on a rock on the officer's left, has been wounded. He holds his right shin with his left hand, and stares pensively down to the south-west corner of the base. A laurel wreath (the emblem of Victory) lies centrally and at an angle on the front curve of the base (the back of which has angled-back corners), and at each side.
Inspected By : D. King
Inscriptions : On long bronze plaque beneath cornice (raised letters): IN MEMORY OF OFFICERS NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN WHO WHILST SERVING WITH THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS (THE EDINBURGH REGIMENT) GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY DURING THE FOLLOWING CAMPAIGNS AFGHANISTAN 1878-1880. EGYPT 1888-1889. CHIN LUSHAI 1889-1890. CHITRAL 1895. TIRAH 1897-1898. SOUTH AFRICA 1900-1902
Signatures : Incised letters on S.W. corner of base: BIRNIE RHIND / SCULPT.
Design period : 1906
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0929)
