ABSTRACT
The deliberately rough-hewn finish Carrick gave to the figure of the Killin soldier reinforced the sense that the private embodied the characteristics of rugged self-reliance and well-muscled physical strength so often attributed to the Highland male. War memorial committees at Killin and Dornoch were evidently impressed by the fact that he had served for over years on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery and even more importantly in the ranks. Clutton-Brock and other commentators were equally dissatisfied with war memorials which made the English soldier look impossibly handsome and were too evidently informed by an increasingly suspect admiration for the Hellenistic masculine ideal. The nearest English equivalent to the sort of rugged, even elemental, soldier Carrick produced was created by a Yorkshireman, Charles Sargeant Jagger. In 1932, Graham Seton Hutchison, a Scottish friend of Jagger's with a fine military record, argued that the English should have their own national memorial and proposed Jagger as the sculptor.
