Huntly War Memorial
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 20:00 on 26 February 2020
Huntly is a town in Aberdeenshire.
Our visit there had a threefold purpose. To photograph the War Memorial, to look at the bookshop in the town and to visit Huntly Castle.
The War Memorial is unusual, a tapering obelisk above a group of granite columns in an elongated octagon:-
Showing elongated shape:-
Dedication. The obelisk has the date 1914. The dedication reads, “Men of Huntly who fell in the Great War 1914:1918.” Great war names on both side tablets, World War 2 on lower tablet:-
Looking towards the town:-
Epitaph. The obelisk bears the date 1918. The epitaph reads, “Their land they crowned with fame that shall not die: in death they died not, being raised on high to glory with the brave.” Great war names on both side tablets, World War 2 on lower tablet:-
Tags: Castles, First World War, Huntly, Huntly Castle, the Great War, War Memorials, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
