Members of staff of the General Registry Office (Scotland) serving as officers, 6 April 1918 (NRS, GRO1/545, p. 868)
National Records of Scotland (NRS) is not alone among the national collections in lacking a war memorial listing its dead, but one of the reasons for the omission may be connected to the fact that its two historic buildings, General Register House and New Register House, were home to eighteen departments and about 300 staff. This may have hindered any scheme to commemorate those who had perished in the war.
The biggest departments in General Register House were the sasines office, and the register of deeds and protests. The record department employed a handful of specialists who worked on the national archives. In New Register House next door the general registry office of births, deaths and marriages shared a front door with a cluster of ten other departments, including four belonging to the court of session.