West Linton War Memorial
Posted in War Memorials at 23:00 on 19 September 2013
West Linton is in the former Peeblesshire, now subsumed into the Tweeddale area of the Scottish Borders. The good lady had wanted to visit there as it has a second-hand bookshop (which we found also sells new books.) She bought an illustrated book called Through Merrie England by F L Stevens – illustrations by Francis D Bedford. It was inscribed Ann G Nelson, 1929.
We had a wander round the village after our rummage in the bookshop and I came across the War Memorial.
It is situated in front of a church in a well kept triangle between Lower Green and Main Street, West Linton.
This close-up shows the cenotaph-like construction.
Great War (upper) plaque:-
WW2 (lower) plaque:-
Tags: Ann G Nelson, F L Stevens, First World War, Francis D Bedford, Second World War, the Great War, Through Merrie England, WEst Linton, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
