There are many memorials around Dingwall touching war.

For centuries Dingwall has been a recruiting centre for militias and local regiments such as the 78th Regt of Foot or Rossshire Buffs that grew into the 4th Seaforth Highlanders, Lord MacLeod’s Highlanders from 1777 that grew into the Highland Light Infantry, and others, all of whose soldiers fought in theatres around the globe. There are plaques to lost school alumni in Dingwall Academy, to the lost policemen in the Police Station, to the lost soldiers in the Boer War at the corner of the Ferry Road, an airman up on Mitchell Hill and here at the railway station to the warriors of Cambrai in WW1, the Normandy veterans of WW2, and the 4th Seaforth’s VC winner. Remembrance Day always brings out a significant percentage of Dingwall’s population no matter what the weather does

The men and women marched out from here to Assaye  and to the other battle hours on the flags.

Many fell and many returned, but none were unchanged. As well as marching, many flew in the skies and more sailed the oceans of the globe

Highland regiments after the first—the Black Watch—were raised in the 19th Century from the Seven Years War in North America and subsequently, and their strength helped to secure Canada then and India later for the British Empire. Highland soldiers fought at Waterloo, in the Peninsular Campaign, at the Crimea, and the Indian Mutiny. They fought in Egypt and South Africa. The Twentieth Century World Wars saw their bravery and fighting ability on the Western Front and protecting the evacuations at Dunkirk. The Royal Regiment of Scotland continues the line.

Our men and women continued and continue still to hold the line as warriors and peacekeepers around the world.

And we remember.