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PC Kenneth MacKenzie and PC Duncan Campbell (SEE UPDATE below) - These two officers died on military service in the Great War. A marble plaque was erected by their colleagues following the following motion at the meeting of the Inverness Burgh Police Joint Branch Board of the Scottish Police Federation held on 19 February 1924:
"PC (Donald) Mackenzie proposed the erection of a Marble Tablet, or some such memorial, to commemorate the names of Constable Mackenzie and Constable D. Campbell, who fell in the late war. This was seconded by PC K. MacLeod and agreed to."
The tablet would have stood proudly within the former Inverness Burgh Police Office at Castle Wynd. In preparation for that building's demolition in the late 1950s, the tablet was removed (and either then or while "temporarily stored") it sustained damage - breaking into two across where the laurel wreaths are on either side. Thankfully the two pieces still fit perfectly back together. Since then the tablet has remained in storage, initially at the "temporary" (1960-1974) Farraline Park Police Station and then at Police HQ at Old Perth Road (both the old building, opened in 1974 and its successor on the same site in 2009).
Recently, thanks to the efforts of Chief Superintendent Julian Innes (then Northern Constabulary Operational Commander, and now Highlands & Islands Divisional Commander) and Mr Peter Pratt and Mr Jim Kelday, Building Maintenance Officers at Police HQ, Inverness, the tablet has finally returned to the light of day. It now is sited in front of the Police Scotland Divisional HQ (previously northern Constabulary HQ) in Inverness. It is still broken but hopefully this can be rectified.
For comparison, I have edited out the breakage in one of the two images to show how it would have looked originally.
The wording reads:
(At the top of the tablet - between the two dates - is the coat of arms of the Royal Burgh of Inverness, which was also the cap badge of the Burgh force at the time)
1914 (coat of arms) 1918
TO THE MEMORY OF
CONSTABLES
DUNCAN CAMPBELL
AND
KENNETH MACKENZIE
OF THE INVERNESS BURGH POLICE
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
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ERECTED BY THEIR POLICE COMRADES
Note: Unfortunately, so many soldiers and sailors with those names fell in the First World War that – in the absence of further details – it has not (so far) been possible to identify from the CWGC
Commonwealth War Graves Commission) database when and where these officers fell. Unfortunately, the officers’ details are not on record – the surviving Personnel Register post-dating their service. It has obviously been re-written in the 1920s to take account only of those officers then serving, and the previous volume was likely destroyed a long time ago. As ever, my enquires are however continuing.
It is a quirk of fate that the memorial now lies where it does, since the current Police HQ – which is located nowadays well within the boundaries of the huge conurbation which is the “City of Inverness” – is located far outside the former Royal Burgh of Inverness. When built in 1974, the HQ was right on the edge of the latter Town boundary, but Inverness has long been the fastest growing town/city in the UK. A century ago however, the Inverness-shire Constabulary had a station (Culcabock) closer to the Burgh‘s then boundary than HQ currently lies. Culcabock village has of course long since been swallowed up by urban Inverness.
At least, almost one century after their supreme sacrifice, the fallen officers are again publicly remembered. (My sincere thanks again to Messrs Innes, Kelday and Pratt for their action in this respect)
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.”
Ode of Remembrance by Laurence Binyon
Descripción bibliográfica: Biblia Latina. - [Moguntiae : Tip. epónima (=Johannes Gutenberg),(c. 1454- agosto, 1456]) . - 128 h.; fol. - Sin sign. ni fol. - L. gót. --2 col. --42 lín. --Esp. p. inic. --Tinta roja y negra.
Impresor: Gutenberg, Johannes, imp.
Lugar de impresión: Alemania. Mainz
Procedencia: Jesuitas. Casa Profesa de Sevilla.
Otro título: Biblia de las 42 líneas
Otro título: Biblia de Gutenberg
-Localización: http://fama.us.es/record=b1523605~S5*spi
Libro completo: fondosdigitales.us.es/fondos/libros/9070/
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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Sideways, Upside-down or Backwards
Torah scrolls are written backwards in Hebrew...
...or is our western writing backwards?
Jacob - יעקב
I started this before I started Joanne's class. I waited until about 2 weeks ago to finish it and I love it.
Archaeological Museum of Verona ( Roman theater )
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Near the Ponte Pietra
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Archaeological Museum of Roman Theatre
Located in the Roman theater in the remains of a former convent of San Gerolamo of the fifteenth, the museum offers an interesting excursus on the history of Verona millennium and presents objects from the cemeteries of the region, including urns, ceramics, tools, glassware and stone.
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I wrote this for my dear friend Peiying a little while ago and it's one of my favourite pieces that I've written. It's blogged on my tumblr under writings
From the book in the previous photo. Take four words, maybe connected, maybe random, maybe a bit of both, and write a few sentences with them.