On our trip up north last year we stayed a few nights in Inverness. At the War Memorial I noticed a few changes since I had first photographed it in 2018.

The Edith Cavell gardens are now more open:-

Flower bed with Gaelic inscription stone. This translates as Field of Remembrance:-

There was now a ‘ghost’ soldier:-

Plus three memorial benches.

Two for the Great War:-

And one for 1939-1945:-

Kingussie War Memorial with Indian Memorial to left:-

The memorial is a celtic cross on a tapering pillar atop a square base:-

Dedication:-

Great War names:-

Second World War names:-

Nearby Memorial Bench to Great War dead:-

From Blair Atholl we continued north up the A 9 and took a slight detour into Kingussie.

In a green area to the east of the road through the town lie two War Memorials.

The first I came across was unusual, being particular to Kingussie.

Built of stone it is a memorial to the dead of Force K6, the Indian Contingent, Royal Indian Army Service Corps 14 of whom are buried in Scotland, nine of them in Kingussie Cemetery.

Side view:-

Information board on the Indian Contingent:-

Information board about the Indian army which was the biggest volunteer Army ever recruited, over 2.5 million men:-

In the way north from Killiecrankie we passed through Blair Atholl and I spotted its War Memorial.

Of course I stopped to photograph it.

A Stone of Remebrance inscribed 1914 – 1918, with memorial plaques on a wall behind:-

Great War Names:-

Second World War Names:-

Cleadon is a village in South Tyneside, just north of Whitburn where a friend of ours lives.

We had never actually stopped in Cleadon – apart from to buy petrol once – until Oct 2024.

While stopping to photograph Cleadon’s War Memorial I spotted this minor Art Deco building:-

Cleadon War Memorial is a stone pillar on a pedestal. Details of the memorial are on this website.

View from side:-

Names of Great War dead and those who served:-

Second World War names:-

Dedication:- In memory of those young men and women from Cleadon Cottage Homes who served
during the World Wars 1914-1919 1939-1945.
“They that put aside today
All the joys of their today
And with toil of their today
Bought for us tomorrow.” – Rudyard Kipling

Blanchland is the site of an old Abbey which nowadays acts as the local church.

Blanchland Abbey:-

Rear of Abbey:-

Blanchland’s War Memorial sits beside the Abbey’s entrance pathway:-

It commemorates the village’s Great War dead. Dedication and names with inscription, “All they had they gave.”:-

A stone wall with two columns surmounted by a pediment with wreath.

Radcliffe was a town in Northumberland just south of Amble.

Its War Memorial was relocated to Amble’s War Memorial garden in the 1970s when the former mining town was demolished and its residents moved to Amble.

Amble is a town at the mouth of the River Coquet (pronounced to rhyme with croquet) in Northumberland.

It can be seen from the top of Warkworth Castle:-

Amble’s War Memorial is a clock tower set in a memorial garden:-

Great War Dedication. Second World War names below:-

Great War names, Adamson – Henderson:-

Great War names Henshell – Wintrip; plus T Bain, R Coulson, J Feretti:-

Warkworth is a village in Northumberland. Its War Memorial is a cenotaph in a recessed corner near the Church:-

Closer view:-

Dedications and names:-

Warkworth also has a War Memorial Hall. Entrance doorway:-

There is a side entrance down a path to the right:-

The Great War dead of Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews, are commemorated on an internal wall of the church:-

Names:-

The notice below implies the names are for the whole of St Andrews not just Holy Trinity’s dead. The town’s War Memorial, situated near the ruins of the Cathedral, I featured here.