Black Watch Memorial

The statue depicts a Highland soldier with rifle and bayonet and displays the names of members of the regiment soldiers who fell during the Boer War.

It was commissioned by the Black Watch on a site donated by the Bank of Scotland in 1906.

An 11-foot high bronze statue of a Black Watch soldier by William Birnie Rhind commemorates over 200 members of the Regiment who were killed or wounded in the South African War of 1900-02. The Black Watch, the oldest Highland Regiment, was formed by General Wade in 1739 to police the Highlands at a time when many of the clans harboured pro-Jacobite sympathies. Their name derived from the contrast of their dark green tartan against the regular red tunics of the British Army.

Photo 1334, May 2011