To mark the centenary of the First World War, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has created a poppy meadow at our Edinburgh garden. The meadow, located on the Garden’s Glasshouse Lawn, includes the common poppy Papaver rhoeas, an iconic symbol of remembrance and used to commemorate the First World War since 1921.
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RBGE World War Two Service Roll
1939-1945 The Service Roll is different from the Roll of Honour in that it shows the names & a short statement of service of all members of staff of the...
RBGE World War One Service Roll
1914-1919 The Service Roll is different from the Roll of Honour in that it shows the names & a short statement of service of all members of staff...
RBGE’s World War One Roll of Honour
We Will Remember Them Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Roll of Honour, 1914–1919 At the outbreak of war in August 1914 the appeal for H.M. Forces met with ready...
RBGE’s World War Two Memorial
Situated beneath the Memorial to the members of staff at RBGE who gave their lives during the First World War is a smaller, but no less poignant memorial...
In memory of Captain Robert Chapman Davie (1886-1919)
“Indirectly the war has robbed the Botanical Society of a member of its Council and a frequent contributor to its meetings in the person of Dr. R.C. Davie,...Index to WW1 Stories
1914
1915
- Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915
- In memory of Lieutenant Isaac Bayley Balfour [Jr.] (1889-1915)
- In memory of Private Duncan Smith (1884-1915)
- In memory of Private Thomas Adam (1878-1915)
- In memory of Private Walter Henry Morland (1881-1915)
- In memory of Private William Gordon Dickson (1871-1915)
- In memory of Sergeant George Cruickshanks Fallow (1890-1915)
- RBGE at War – Hume and Fallow’s stories
1916
- In memory of Private Arthur Henry Jones (c.1882-1916)
- In memory of Private George Blackmore (c.1870-1916)
- John Anthony’s photo album – commemorating the Battle of the Somme
1917
- In memory of Lance Corporal Samuel Stewart (1883-1917)
- In memory of Private Duncan Coutts (1892-1917)
- In memory of Private John Hatley (1879-1917)
- In memory of Private John Mathieson Brown (1887-1917)
- In memory of Private Thomas Aird (1878-1917) and Private Thomas Young
1918
- In memory of Corporal Henry McBeath (1878-1918)
- In memory of Gunner Andrew Ewing Calder (1884-1918)
- In memory of Lance Sergeant James Maxwell Hampson (1891-1918)
- In memory of Private James Christopher Adam (1882-1918), and his brother Lt. Robert Moyes Adam (1885-1967)
1919
Index to WW2 Stories
WW1 Memorials
- Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915
- In memory of Captain Robert Chapman Davie (1886-1919)
- In memory of Corporal Henry McBeath (1878-1918)
- In memory of Gunner Andrew Ewing Calder (1884-1918)
- In memory of Lance Corporal Samuel Stewart (1883-1917)
- In memory of Lance Sergeant James Maxwell Hampson (1891-1918)
- In memory of Lieutenant Isaac Bayley Balfour [Jr.] (1889-1915)
- In memory of Private Arthur Henry Jones (c.1882-1916)
- In memory of Private David Hume (1888-1914)
- In memory of Private Duncan Coutts (1892-1917)
- In memory of Private Duncan Smith (1884-1915)
- In memory of Private George Blackmore (c.1870-1916)
- In memory of Private James Christopher Adam (1882-1918), and his brother Lt. Robert Moyes Adam (1885-1967)
- In memory of Private John Hatley (1879-1917)
- In memory of Private John Mathieson Brown (1887-1917)
- In memory of Private Thomas Adam (1878-1915)
- In memory of Private Thomas Aird (1878-1917) and Private Thomas Young
- In memory of Private Walter Henry Morland (1881-1915)
- In memory of Private William Gordon Dickson (1871-1915)
- In memory of Sergeant George Cruickshanks Fallow (1890-1915)
- RBGE at War – Hume and Fallow’s stories
- RBGE World War One Service Roll
- RBGE’s World War One Roll of Honour
- The Poppy Patch
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- A Gardener at War, by Freda Child
- Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915
- Commemorating the First World War – our Stories
- Herbarium specimens collected during World War I
- In memory of Captain Robert Chapman Davie (1886-1919)
- In memory of Corporal Henry McBeath (1878-1918)
- In memory of Gunner Andrew Ewing Calder (1884-1918)
- In memory of Lance Corporal Samuel Stewart (1883-1917)
- In memory of Lance Sergeant James Maxwell Hampson (1891-1918)
- In memory of Lieutenant Isaac Bayley Balfour [Jr.] (1889-1915)
- In memory of Private Arthur Henry Jones (c.1882-1916)
- In memory of Private David Hume (1888-1914)
- In memory of Private Duncan Coutts (1892-1917)
- In memory of Private Duncan Smith (1884-1915)
- In memory of Private George Blackmore (c.1870-1916)
- In memory of Private James Christopher Adam (1882-1918), and his brother Lt. Robert Moyes Adam (1885-1967)
- In memory of Private John Hatley (1879-1917)
- In memory of Private John Mathieson Brown (1887-1917)
- In memory of Private Thomas Adam (1878-1915)
- In memory of Private Thomas Aird (1878-1917) and Private Thomas Young
- In memory of Private Walter Henry Morland (1881-1915)
- In memory of Private William Gordon Dickson (1871-1915)
- In memory of Sergeant George Cruickshanks Fallow (1890-1915)
- John Anthony’s photo album – commemorating the Battle of the Somme
- John Richard Ferisy; “old soldier he”
- Loveliest of trees the cherry now
- Poppies for remembrance 4/8/2014
- Private Allan Menzies (1894-1915) – photo found
- RBGE at War – Hume and Fallow’s stories
- RBGE World War One Service Roll
- RBGE World War Two Service Roll
- RBGE’s World War One Roll of Honour
- RBGE’s World War Two Memorial
- Remembering Cornflowers are blue
- Rhododendron campanulatum ‘Roland Cooper’
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to mark Centenary of First World War with Poppy Field
- Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922)
- The Botanics in WW1 – Display in Library Foyer
- The Poppy Patch
- Wartime Rhododendron
- World War 1 Poppy Field