The former bonded warehouse for Red Hackle Whisky on Otago Street in Glasgow. Self-styled as 'Scotland's Best Whisky' Red Hackle was established in 1920 by Charles Hepburn and Herbert Ross, two former soldiers and it was named after the distinctive red feather worn by members of the Black Watch. You can just about still make out the words Red Hackle on the faded advertisement for the whisky on the building's gable end.
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The Black Watch on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, c.1910s - Valentine's Postcard
Today is Indigenous Veterans Day, and I want to honour my Inuk/Mi'kmaw father, Chesley Powell. He was a peacekeeper in the 60s and very early 70s. He was exposed to all sorts of awful chemicals (PCBs and Agent Orange) which caused skin issues for him and likely caused the joint issues my sister, her daughter, and I were born with.
He was a private with the Black Watch and served in Cyprus, Israel, Jamaica, as well as in Canada during the FLQ Crisis.
He wasn't born in Canada but in Newfoundland when it was still a British colony. He ended up as the honour guard for Queen Elizabeth and her mother, probably because he looked very good in uniform. He was a very handsome man in his youth and made for primo arm candy.
Fun trivia: at one point, someone had the bright idea to change the way the Black Watch presented arms to the Queen. Previously, they all kneeled on both knees. On the occasion of the ill-thought-out change, they instead knelt on one knee with the other up. Considering they were all in kilts and were in full regimental mode, the Queen saw a lot of soldier junk swinging free. Dad was in the front row and totally flashed the Queen.
She didn't lose her composure but decreed that the Black Watch should go back to their previous method of presenting arms.
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Am Freiceadan Dubh
Ìomhaich chuimhneachadh an Dùn Èideann.
The Black Watch. Memorial statue in Edinburgh.
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Balhousie Castle near Perth’s North Inch, home to the superb Black Watch Museum telling the story of Scotland’s oldest Highland regiment and of the soldiers who served in it. Balhousie Castle has origins dating back to the 1100s More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/perth/blackwatchmuseum/index.html
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Oh wow. It’s even worse than I thought.
“In 2004, the widow of a retired general who had commanded the Black Watch regiment at Gagetown rekindled public interest in Agent Orange. She revealed that when awarding her husband a disability pension, the government had admitted to using Agent Orange. This acknowledgement kicked off new interest and investigations by various journalists. The flurry of attention then lead the government to begin its own investigation. By late November 2005, 300 of the 800 troops of the Black Watch stationed at CFB Gagetown — and believed to have been exposed to Agent Orange — had already died.”
My dad was a member of the Black Watch. I guess he’s one of the lucky survivors.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canada-and-agent-orange
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Some concept art for the Blackwatch. It is interesting to look back and see just how different Nox is now from his original concept.
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Balhousie Castle near Perth’s North Inch, home to the superb Black Watch Museum telling the story of Scotland’s oldest Highland regiment and of the soldiers who served in it. Balhousie Castle has origins dating back to the 1100s More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/perth/blackwatchmuseum/index.html
#Scotland #Perth #BalhousieCastle #Castle #BlackWatch #Perthshire #UndiscoveredScotland
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