File:Rainbow Warriors - Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 967232.jpg
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DescriptionRainbow Warriors - Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 967232.jpg |
English: Rainbow Warriors - Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, near to Highbridge, Highland, Great Britain.
This famous bronze memorial by the artist Scott Sutherland was unveiled in 1952 by HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, in tribute to the men who trained at Achnacarry during the Second World War. They would ultimately become the most elite of fighting men - the Army Commandos. The toughness of the Commando training here was legendary, and included such delights as an 18 mile run up Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, and that was just one aspect of a single day's training. Opposed landings using live ammunition was another activity carried out during amphibious assault training on Loch Lochy, as was the crossing of the River Arkaig in flood via various devices including the Death Slide and Toggle Bridge. Commandos were required to be skilled in the handling of all types of captured foreign weapons as well as their own, and become expert in unarmed combat, and survival in the atrocious climate of the mountains in Lochaber. |
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Source | From this image at geograph.org.uk; transferred by User:Ultra7 using geograph_org2commons. |
Author | Mike Searle |
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Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | Mike Searle / Rainbow Warriors - Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge / |
InfoField | Mike Searle / Rainbow Warriors - Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge |
Camera location | 56° 53′ 53.88″ N, 4° 56′ 37.58″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 56.898300; -4.943771 |
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Object location | 56° 53′ 55″ N, 4° 56′ 39″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 56.898690; -4.944200 |
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