What is recorded here

Edinburgh Castle, Scottish National War Memorial stands inside the oldest fortress in Scotland, a dark chamber built in 1927 to hold the names of the missing. The castle has watched armies, kings and storms for centuries, but this room answers a different kind of danger: the sudden erasure of young lives in modern war. The memorial does not decorate the castle; it corrects its pride.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh Castle, Scottish National War Memorial as War Memorial (20th Century) (1927). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Edinburgh Castle, Scottish National War Memorial was built in the 20th century, completed in 1927, to honor those who died in the First World War. It is important as Scotland's principal national war memorial and contains the names of over 135,000 service personnel.

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