SCOTTISH MEMORIAL TO WAR POETS

Early day motion 465, tabled 30 October 2017 by Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 16 members.

That this House notes that during and after the First World War, Edinburgh was host to a number of the War Poets, including Wilfred Owen and Sigfreid Sassoon; recognises the beautiful and harrowing work of Scottish Great War Poets, including Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Joseph Lee, Charles Hamilton Sorely and John Buchan; commends the work of the Wilfred Owen's Edinburgh committee in promoting war time poetry; and calls on all stakeholders and civic society to come together to pursue a fitting monument to all of Scotland's War Poets for the centenary of the end of the First World War in 2018.

Signatures by party: Scottish National Party 10, Labour 3, Conservative 1, DUP 1, Liberal Democrat 1.