Heart of Midlothian War Memorial plan a decade in the making

 

Orient a week on Saturday they will do so at the Heart of Midlothian War Memorial, standing proudly at Haymarket, which has undergone some essential works.

 

It is a plan that has been in the making for over a decade.

 

Rewind to 2009, the memorial was placed into storage due to the tram works that were taking place through Edinburgh city centre. The same company – Stone Engineering – which built McCrae’s Battalion Memorial Cairn at Contalmaison in 2004 took care of the dismantling. On its return four years later, the club placed a time capsule at the base of the monument.

 

There was a desire from the McCrae’s Battalion Trust and others to provide it with even greater “honour” and “respect”, as Garry Halliday,

 

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