Black Watch veterans to raise Western Front memorial

Veterans of the Black Watch have launched an appeal to raise a memorial to the men who died on the Western Front during the First World War.

There is no memorial in Flanders or France to soldiers from the regiment to commemorate the thousands of Scots who lost their lives in the Great War.

But now the Black Watch Association has launched a centenary appeal with the aim of raising a memorial in a secluded rural area of Ypres, in Belgium, in 2014.

The veterans plan to raise the estimated 25,000 for the planned 2014 unveiling of the memorial in Black Watch Corner, a stronghold held by the soldiers during the Battle for Polygon Wood in November 1914.

They want to erect a statue at the battlefield which is modelled on one that stands in Kirriemuir, Angus.