The third anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine has been marked in Scotland with a special service at the National War Memorial ... community at the Edinburgh Castle event.

Edinburgh Castle's hours vary slightly by season, but you can expect it to be open from about 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. most days. The National War Museum operates slightly abbreviated hours.

The memorial commemorates Colonel Robert A. Smith, who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war [BBC] Robert was one of nine children. He left Edinburgh and moved to Mississippi as a 14 ...

Hoisted high atop Edinburgh, as if monitoring the city below, Edinburgh Castle is not only one of ... Inside its stone walls (which survived a World War I bombing), some of the attractions ...

The memorial is to Robert A Smith, a Scottish man who fought in the US Civil War Deep in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, there's a grey obelisk, around 2m (6ft) high, its inscription faded.