Advie War Memorial
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 19 November 2023
After leaving Grantown-on-Spey we headed north on what in the end, over a few days, turned out to be a journey through the heartland of the Highland League past and present.
A few miles north of Grantown I spotted a road sign which said “Advie War Memorial” so I had to turn off the main road to find it. The Memorial, a tapering granite pillar atop a rectangular plinth bearing names on its four faces, stands beside the side road opposite what looks like a village hall.
Dedication and names:-
It appears this is a replacement memorial. This webpage says the original was damaged in 2006 and its remains are in Advie churchyard.
More names:-
Tags: Advie, First World War, the Great War, War Memorials, World War 1, WW1, WWI
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