official unveiling and dedication of the Association of Perth Veterans’ war memorial will take place in Perth city centre on Saturday, June 26 - Armed Forces Day.
The 11am ceremony will also see the raising of the Armed Forces Flag at the memorial which has been erected in St John Street, at the rear of historic St John’s Kirk, which houses the city’s war memorial to those lost in conflicts during two world wars.
The event was to have taken place last November, in time for the country’s Remembrance Day services and parades, but was delayed then - and on several subsequent occasions - because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “The APV was formed in 2018 as a pressure group to ensure that those men and women who served in the forces from the.