Scottish American Memorial

Behind the main statue is a frieze showing queues of men answering the call by following a kilted pipe band.

The Scottish National War Memorial (with similar design relating to the military in the Shrine) having been opened in July of that same year it was evidently relatedly unveiled on 7 September 1927 by the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alanson B Houghton,[2] with the Mackintosh's text reading "if it be life that waits, I shall live forever unconquered.

"The Call 1914" (as actually named within the memorial) was designed by R. Tait McKenzie who was a Scottish Canadian working at the time at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

[1] The bronze backdrop frieze shows Scots of differing professions answering the call and changing from civilians into marching soldiers.

[2] At the bottom of the frieze are lines from E. A. Mackintosh's poem "A Creed": "If it be life that waits I shall live forever unconquered; if death I shall die at last strong in my pride and free."

R. Tait McKenzie 's Scots American War Memorial (1927), Edinburgh , Scotland.
R. Tait McKenzie 's Scots American War Memorial (1927), Edinburgh , Scotland has a line by Ewart Alan Mackintosh on the frieze at the back.