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Arbirlot War Memorial, Arbirlot Churchyard

Arbirlot‘s Great  War Memorial is in the form of a stained glass window with a cartouche set into the wall of the church (St Ninian’s.)

Great War Memorial Window, Arbirlot

Arbirlot Great War Memorial

Also in the graveyard I found  a Commonwealth War Grave and three gravestone mentions of war deaths.

Catherine E Martin, Auxiliary Territorial Service, 20/5/1944, aged 21:-

Commonwealth War Grave, Arbirlot

Munro Park, killed in action in Crete, 2/6/1941, aged 22;-

War Death Commemoration, Arbirlot

Joseph Frain Webster, killed in action, Ypres, 30/10/1914:-

Arbirlot, War Death Commemoration

Andrew Turpie Butchart, killed in action, France, 29/7/1918, aged 34:-

Commemoration of War Death, Arbirlot

Arbirlot Waterfall

Arbirlot is a village in Angus, about two miles west of Arbroath. We stopped there on a trip north as we had read about the scenic waterfall on the burn there, the Elliot Water:-

Arbirlot Waterfall

The waterfall lies just below the road bridge over the burn:-

Waterfall and Bridge, Arbirlot

We weren’t the only ones there. A couple of people had picked their way across the burn and a family was having a good time by the waterside:-

Waterfall and Bridge at Arbirlot, Angus

I made two videos of the waterfall:-

 

War Memorial, Blairgowrie and Rattray

This lies in Blairgowrie town centre, a stone pillar surmounted by a statue of a pelican and with the figure of a soldier with arms reversed at its base:-

War Memorial, Blairgowrie, Statue of Soldier

Side view:-

Blairgowrie War Memorial

Great War names are located on plaques on the pillar’s sides with second World War names on the plinth on which the soldier stands:-

Blargowrie War Memorial detail

War Memorial, Blairgowrie

One of the plinth’s sides has an additional plaque for a Korean War death:-

War Memorial, Blairgowrie

The remaining Great War plaque:-

Blairgowrie War Memorial, Great War Names

River Ericht at Blairgowrie

From Alyth we started driving back south homewards. The route took us through Blairgowrie which is so adjoined with the neigbouring Rattray they go under the one banner.

The River Ericht runs through the two towns and seems to be the border between them according to the caption on the photo here.

The north side of the river has a weir:-

River Ericht at Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross

Looking south from the bridge:-

Blairgowrie, River Ericht

There seems too to be a fish ladder under the bridge:-

River Ericht at Blairgowrie from Bridge

Alyth War Memorial

Alyth‘s War Memorial stands  quite a way out of the town at the junction of Meigle Road and Airlie Street:-

Alyth War Memorial

The Great War Memorial takes the form of a figure of Britannia on top of a tapering stone column. The Second World War Memorial lies on the wall behind:-

War Memorial, Alyth

Side view of Britannia:-

Britannia, Alyth War Memorial

Great War Dedication with Great War names:-

Alyth War Memorial Great War Dedication

Other Great War names are on panels on the other sides:-

War Memorial, Alyth, Names

Great War Names, War Memorial, Alyth

Alyth War Memorial, Great War Names

Off to the left as you look at the Memorial from the road is this commemoration of Alfred Anderson, the oldest surviving Scottish veteran of the Great War till his death in 2005:-

Alyth, Memorial to Alfred Anderson

Second World War Memorial. The wall  bears a plaque containing names and two others stating “Your supreme sacrifice we will remember” and “Service not self.”

Alyth Second World War Memorial

A closer view reveals one name for the Falklands conflict of 1982:-

Second World War Names, Alyth War Memorial

 

 

 

Alyth

Alyth is a town in Perth and Kinross which we went on to visit after we had left Meigle.

It’s a lovely wee place with a burn running through the town centre with several bridges over it, of which the one in this photo is the most scenic:-

Alyth Burn, Alyth, Perth and Kinross

I found two minor Art Deco buildings.

The Scotmid Coop:-

Art Deco Coop, Alyth, Perth and Kinross

And this one, a hair salon:-

Minor Art Deco, Alyth, Perth and Kinross

Right by the town square is a Boer War Memorial:-

Boer War Memorial, Alyth

Its dedication plaque commemorates three individuals. David Stanley Williams, ninth Earl of Airlie, Noel Neils Ramsay and Charles James Wedderburn Ogilvy:-

Dedication Plaque on Boer War Memorial, Alyth

 

 

Newtyle, Angus

Newtyle is a village in Angus, Scotland. We visited it the same day we went to Meigle.

Newtyle was the railhead for the first railway in North-east Scotland, the Dundee and Newtyle Railway, which used rope-hauled inclines, horses and sails to pull the carriages, before finally steam locomotives. This plaque commemorates it:-

Railway Plaque, Newtyle

Newtyle’s War Memorial is a segmented stone column at a crossroads to the northeast of the village:-

Newtyle War Memorial

Nowadays the names are on two plaques and are mixed for the two World Wars originally they were carved into the stone. 20 of the 28 are for the Great War:-

War Memorial , Newtyle, Names

Newtyle War Memorial, Names

 

Meigle Kirkyard

While in Meigle we had a wander round and found the kirkyard had some interesting features.

Vanora’s Mound:-

Vanora's Mound, Meigle

This is supposedly the burial mound of Vanora, the legendary King Arthur’s Queen, otherwise known as Guinevere:-

Vanora's Mound Information Stone

A stone on the Church wall commemorates the burial place of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Sarah Charlotte Campbell-Bannerman. Henry Campbell-Bannerman was once Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first to formally hold that title apparently, and also the only PM to die in No 10 Downing Street though he had been succeeded as PM by Herbert Asquith ten days previously.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Sarah Charlotte Campbell-Bannerman Dedication Stone, Meigle

This gravestone mentions a James Bruce who died at the wonderfully named Pocahontas, Illinois:-

Gravestone, Meigle Kirkyard

Meigle War Memorial

Meigle is a village in Strathmore, Perth and Kinross.

We went there to see the Pictish Sculptured Stone Museum but unfortunately it was shut. We’ll get there another time.

I did manage to find the village War Memorial, a pair of gates at the entrance to the local Park:-

War Memorial, Meigle

Great War Names:-

Great War Names, Meigle War Memorial

Second World War Names. These include the recipient of a Victoria Cross, Lieutenant Commander M D Wanklyn:-

World War 2 Names, Meigle War Memorial

 

War Memorial, Tow Law

Tow Law is a town in County Durham. Tow rhymes with cow (and Law with law.)

Its War Memorial depicts a soldier advancing with rifle extended and was erected by the inhabitants of Tow Law, Thornley, Sunniside, Hedley Hope, East Hedley Hope and Satley. It stands by the A 68 which runs through the town at its confluence with the B 6297 to Wolsingham.

War Memorial, Tow Law

East aspect, Great War Names on column, Second World War on plinth below:-

War Memorial, Tow Law, East Aspect

Reverse (south) aspect:-

Tow Law War Memorial Reverse

West aspect:-

Tow Law War Memorial, West Aspect

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