Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) War Memorial, Kelvingrove.

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) War Memorial by Philip Lindsey Clark (1889-1977).

Remembrance Sunday, November 2019.

This bronze memorial was unveiled in August 1924 to commemorate members of the Cameronians who fell in the First World War. The sculpture depicts a sergeant “advancing over the top”, symbolising Victory. On his right (not shown in this photograph) is the dead body of a young officer, symbolising Sacrifice. A Lewis gunner (in the foreground) covers the advancing troops with gunfire and, in the words of the artist, shows the “determination to succeed… for which our men were so remarkable”.

Click link below for newsreel footage of Field Marshall Earl Haig unveiling the Regimental Memorial at Kelvingrove, Glasgow on Saturday 9th August.

n 1947 the inscription was include a commemoration of those who died in the Second World War, and in 1968 a tablet was added to mark the disbandment of the regiment.