A Son of the Rock

Gordon is in the part of the Borders region that was once called Berwickshire.

The memorial is unmissable as you come through the village from north to south.

It’s in the form of a Scottish wayside cross with Celtic ornamentation, and has apparently been moved from its original position in the public park to the crossroads at the centre of town.

It appears to bear only First World War names.* According to the Scottish War Memorials website there are Second World War dead for Gordon but the poster doesn’t say where they can be found.

*One of the names is for a soldier who ws killed in action in 1920. George Stuart Henderson had an unusually high number of decorations; VC, DSO and Bar, MC, and Mentioned in Despatches no less than 5 times. He died in the Arab revolt in what was then called Mesopotamia, now Iraq. Some things never seem to change.