I would reckon our mjolnir is kept upright in a case in the Wallace monument
Sooo Dick around and get a sword …. That’s my take away and ain’t no one changing my mind
Nah our equivalent is the Sword of Honour of Major General Hector MacDonald. It is National Museums Scotland item number 000-180-000-409-C
I saw it years ago in a regimental museum but I think it has moved since.
The first man to hold every rank between private and Major General in the British Army and one of only 2 to do so.
His military career was faultless and he was seen as a likely future rival to Lord Kitchener, with whom the rumours about McDonald’s sexuality appear to have originated. Which is ironic given the allegations of closeted homosexuality which have arisen in relation to Kitchener since.
Driven to suicide after a coordinated and classist campaign to frame him as a gay paedophile saw him being shipped out to stand trial on charges of the same.
The King advised him that if the charges became public it would be better to shoot himself rather than live with the stigma which would remain even if he won.
When he received notice that the press was about to do so, he wrote two letters, one to each of his brothers. Only one letter has survived, in it he stridently maintains his innocence.
He then had a cup of tea, two slices of toast, and shot himself.
The investigation after his death cleared him of all suspicion and declared the accusations spurious.
After his death a concealed wife and child were discovered who refused his pension.
His paltry burial, without military honours, caused a national scandal at the time.
Easily the greatest soldier Scotland has ever produced and a general whose dissenting absence probably contributed to the high attrition at the Somme.
Immediately before his death he was developing a new colonial militia in Ceylon with a view to expanding his model across the far east- having identified a critical weakness in Imperial defence in the region.
He believed the UK lacked local colonial troops trained in jungle warfare east of India and its Indian army was disproportionately drawn from people used to fighting in the mountains and plains of the subcontinent.
His plans were never expanded on and that weakness lead directly to British defeats to the Japanese in ww2
His premature death is one of the great ‘what if’ moments of the British empire and also one of the more obscure.
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I would reckon our mjolnir is kept upright in a case in the Wallace monument
Sooo Dick around and get a sword …. That’s my take away and ain’t no one changing my mind
Nah our equivalent is the Sword of Honour of Major General Hector MacDonald. It is National Museums Scotland item number 000-180-000-409-C
I saw it years ago in a regimental museum but I think it has moved since.
The first man to hold every rank between private and Major General in the British Army and one of only 2 to do so.
His military career was faultless and he was seen as a likely future rival to Lord Kitchener, with whom the rumours about McDonald’s sexuality appear to have originated. Which is ironic given the allegations of closeted homosexuality which have arisen in relation to Kitchener since.
Driven to suicide after a coordinated and classist campaign to frame him as a gay paedophile saw him being shipped out to stand trial on charges of the same.
The King advised him that if the charges became public it would be better to shoot himself rather than live with the stigma which would remain even if he won.
When he received notice that the press was about to do so, he wrote two letters, one to each of his brothers. Only one letter has survived, in it he stridently maintains his innocence.
He then had a cup of tea, two slices of toast, and shot himself.
The investigation after his death cleared him of all suspicion and declared the accusations spurious.
After his death a concealed wife and child were discovered who refused his pension.
His paltry burial, without military honours, caused a national scandal at the time.
Easily the greatest soldier Scotland has ever produced and a general whose dissenting absence probably contributed to the high attrition at the Somme.
Immediately before his death he was developing a new colonial militia in Ceylon with a view to expanding his model across the far east- having identified a critical weakness in Imperial defence in the region.
He believed the UK lacked local colonial troops trained in jungle warfare east of India and its Indian army was disproportionately drawn from people used to fighting in the mountains and plains of the subcontinent.
His plans were never expanded on and that weakness lead directly to British defeats to the Japanese in ww2
His premature death is one of the great ‘what if’ moments of the British empire and also one of the more obscure.
They have curved swords…Curved! Swords.
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