1918: Victory and Remembrance
Meet a Highland soldier from 1918 and learn about his experience at the front and his reflections on the Armistice.
About 1918: Victory and Remembrance
| 4th Nov 2019 to 7th Nov 2019 | |
| 11.15am, 12.15pm, 2pm & 3pm | |
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Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh Castle Castlehill, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 2NG |
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| included in normal admission | |
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1918 was the year we nearly lost the Great War but ultimately won it with a young conscript army; a year of continuous fighting in which we lost more casualties than in the years of Passchendaele or the Somme; a year in which at one stage the British Army stood with backs to the wall, a hair’s breadth away from disaster, yet finished the war with 100 days of continuous victories; a year in which both sides made liberal use of gas, as the process of killing reached its finest development.
Meet a Highland soldier from 1918 and learn about his experience at the front and his reflections on the Armistice. Should we celebrate victory or the end of the War? Should we commemorate noble sacrifice or waste? What did it mean to him? And why should it matter to you?
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