Unveiling of the
London Scottish War Memorial.
The Ypres Times.
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By DR. ARCHIBALD FLEMING.
[As members know, we were privileged to arrange supply, transport and billeting
for the London Scottish on the occasion of the unveiling of their Regimental Memorial
at Messines in May last. By the kindness of the Editor of their Regimental Gazette
we are enabled to reproduce an illustration and to reprint the account i of the
ceremony that appeared therein by Dr. Archibald Fleming. We also print a testimony
to the spirit of the corps by a member of the Ypres League. This account is a
contribution to the Ypres Book of Valour.]
KING ALBERT AND SOME OF THE MEN OF MESSINES.
Monday, May 5th A detachment of officers, pipers, and a hundred men of the
London Scottish had come out for the unveiling of the Cross to commemorate their comrades
who fell in the charge at Messines on October 31stNovember 1st, 1914 to commemorate
also those who died in many subsequent engagements in France and Flanders, Salonica
and Palestine. Messines is a tiny village perched towards the right-hand extremity
(looking eastwards) of the salient, about six miles from Ypres, and about two miles nearer
the end of the lip than Zandvoorde. The famous Hill 60 is near it, Kemmel Hill
forming the extreme limit of the ridge. Here, as Lord Haig vividly explained at the
