An echo of the most awful of times.

We have broken our journey home to stay with old friends in Dingwall. Whenever I visit them I am drawn to the war memorial that stands outside the railway station.
The Seaforth Highlanders Memorial was brought home from the battlefields of France in 1924. The large wooden cross, fashioned from a shell-shattered tree, was originally erected in the village of Fontaine Notre Dame in France in November 1917 in honour of the Seaforth Highlanders who had fallen at the Battle of Cambrai. The rustic cross stands on a plinth of granite from the Ardross Estate and bears the names of the five officers and thirty-five soldiers who fell on the 21st and 22nd November 1917.