War Memorial and Grave, Kirkcowan
Posted in Trips, War Graves, War Memorials at 12:00 on 4 November 2019
Kirkcowan is a village within a larger district of the same name in Dumfries and Galloway, a few miles northwest of Wigtown. Its War Memorial is in the form of a Celtic cross on a tapered column atop a square plinth and lies in the churchyard.
The top panel is inscribed, “In memory of the gallant men of Kirkcowan who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1919.” The lower panel continues, “And of (11 names) who gave their lives in the World-War 1919-1945.”
Also in the churchyard was a war grave. Private D F Hamilton, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles,) 8/3/1918, aged 22:-
Tags: First World War, Kirkcowan, Second World War, the Great War, War Memorials, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
