Banchory War Memorial
Posted in War Memorials at 12:00 on 20 December 2014
At the end of October we had a trip up north and stopped at Banchory for an hour or so.
The Banchory War Memorial is very unusual in shape yet extremely elegant with a square cross-section but edge-on to the main road rather than side-on, flaring out a little at the base and surmounted by a pyramidal top with a samll cross. The lower portions contain names for WW2. The main columns commemorate WW1.
This view from the other side shows the memorial gardens and the cross a bit better:-
Tags: Banchory, Banchory War Memorial, First World War, Second World War, the Great War, War Memorials, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
Richard
10 September 2017 at 13:43
I have just returned from a visit to Banchory and could not help noticing the splendid war memorial ,but why does it commemorate those who died in the First World War from 1914 – 1919 .
jackdeighton
10 September 2017 at 19:39
Richard,
The armistice was signed in 1918 and a lot of War Memorials use that date but the peace treaty wasn’t agreed till 1919 so technically the war was still going on till then; hence 1919 on other Memorials.
I think most Memorials use the 1919 date.
Thanks for looking in and commenting .