- County name: City of Edinburgh
- Group/School name: 122 Inverleith Scout Group
- Age group: 11+
- Group type: Scouts
We walked the Scouts up from where we meet, into central Edinburgh and then stopped at various war memorials along Princes Street (above the one in Princes Street Gardens), on to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers Memorial on North Bridge and then up to the War Memorial at the City Chambers.
At each stop we read something out, either some information about the war memorial or a relatively well know poem such as In Flanders Fields, or the one with 'we will remember them' in it.
At one of the early stops each scout was given a slip of red paper and asked them to carry it to the next stop, and then at the next stop while listening to a poem they passed a pen around and were invited to write on their paper 'we will remember them. The scouts then carried it to the next stop and while I read another poem the Assistant Scout Leader stapled all the bits of paper in loops around a black circle of paper to make a poppy which we laid at the City Chambers memorial.
James Hardie
Scout Leader, 122 Inverleith Scout Group
