Candlelight Ceremony held at Edinburgh Comely Bank Cemetery

A family visiting from Australia taking part in the ceremony. (photo: Mark Owens, Outtherephoto)

29 casualties commemorated at Edinburgh Comely Bank Cemetery had candles placed on their headstones to remember them at a ceremony on the 7 December 2023.

The event took place with CWGC Edinburgh University volunteers, cadets from Edinburgh Academy and pupils from Broughton High School. Casualty stories and lines from Binyon were read out during the ceremony and a piper from the Academy also took part, playing the lament "The Flowers of the Forest".

Above, Brian Ward, Events Manager at Legion Scotland, remembering a fellow Scots Guard. (photos: Mark Owens, Outtherephoto)