Armed Forces Day was marked in Perth with a special ceremony when a flag was raised in honour of servicemen and women past and present.
Councillors and senior council officials and representatives from the armed forces and veterans’ associations attended at the North Inch on Monday beside the 51st Highland Memorial.
Also marking the occasion were Brigadier Melville Jameson, the Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross, and Provost Liz Grant.
“The strength of our local links with the armed forces is well known, and Armed Forces Day gives us an opportunity to honour the commitment, service and sacrifice that servicemen and women have made and continue to make for us,” said Provost Grant.
The Reverend John Murdoch of St John’s Kirk and St Leonard’s-in-the-Fields in Perth spoke and led a short prayer before the flag was raised.
Watching the ceremony was 51st Highland Division veteran Gerald Kerrigan, 97, from Scone.
He joined the 51st Highland Division as a driver in May 1939, and was among the survivors of the retreat from Dunkirk. He then saw service at El Alamein, and in Tunisia and Sicily.
