Dunfermline War Memorials
Posted in Art Deco, Dunfermline, War Memorials at 14:00 on 27 September 2010
Dunfermline’s First World War Memorial is just over the road from Dunfermline Abbey, or more accurately from the ruins of Dunfermline Palace. Being 1920s in origin there is a touch of Deco about it.
The Second World War memorial is in a smaller garden location adjacent to the Abbey grounds.
This is the Palace ruin. The WW1 memorial is behind to the left here.
Dunfermline was once Scotland’s capital, hence the lines from the poem/ballad Sir Patrick Spens,
“The king sits in Dunfermline toun,
Drinking the blude red wyne.”
Here’s my photo of the Abbey, which lies to the right and above the Palace. You can see its pointed turret in the Palace picture above.
The tower’s rim has King Robert The Bruce carved out in stone on its four sides.
Tags: World War 1, World War 2, Dunfermline, Dunfermline Abbey, First World War, Robert The Bruce, Second World War, the Great War
