A new mural to celebrate the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s Own), will soon be replacing a faded version that has been gracing a wall of a Sixth Street restaurant for seven years.

Lakeshore Village BIA chair Chris Korwin-Kuczynski says funds have been approved by the city for a new mural.

He says details are being worked out and he would like to see a new mural replace the older one by the end of the year.

The Sixth Street mural which celebrates the Toronto Scottish Regiment was installed in the summer of 2013 and was a joint project by the City of Toronto Mural Program, the Lakeshore Village BIA and the Toronto Scottish Regiment.

The design was submitted by a student in an Etobicoke school drawing contest.

The Regiment moved from the Fort York in 2009 to a new armory adjacent to the Toronto Police College on Birmingham St.

The Regiment, which was known as the 75th Battalion, lost more than 1,000 soldiers during its fighting in France from 1916 until armistice in 1918.

Some 242 battalion soldiers received decorations after the war. The regiment received 16 battle honours during WW1.

During WW11, the Toronto Scottish was the first Canadian unit to land in the United Kingdom after the declaration of war. Almost every peacetime soldier volunteered for active duty in the machine-gun unit.

Toronto Scottish was awarded 21 battle honours, 10 of which appear on their regimental colours, including Dieppe, Falaise, St.-Andre-sur-Orne and The Scheldt.