Bridge Street, Ballater, showing War Memorial:-

Ballater, Bridge Street looking towards bridge. The shop on the corner sold very good ice cream:-

Unfortunately I didn’t get to a vantage point to see the bridge itself but I was able to photograph the River Dee from the bridge. Looking east:-

Opposite view, looking west:-

Since we were close to Ballater after leaving Corgarff and I had seen its War Memorial on television when the late Queen’s funeral procession passed through the town I thought I should take the chance to photograph it myself.

It’s a granite cross rising from a wall where the names are inscribed, standing in front of the church on Bridge Street. Unfortunately there was a tractor right behind it that day:-

Dedication and names:-

There was what I assumed was a Great War Centenary bench nearby:-

The War Memorial in Dufftown, Moray, is dedicated to the men of Mortlach. A column surmounted by two figures of victory plus a cross, it is situated off Balvennie Street (the A 941 ) in a memorial garden.

Memorial garden gates with plaques commemorating 1914 -1919 and 1939 – 1945:-

Great War Dedication and some names but other names are obscured by the wreaths:-

Great War names W D Alexander – W C Carden.

Great War names:-J Sandison – R Yeats plus C Stuart and F Kerrin:-

Second World War dedication and names:-

This memorial to the men and women who served at RAF Banff lies beside the A 98 road between Banff and Portsoy.

Main plaque:-

Lower plaque:-

Memorial stone for Number 14 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit which trained 2,136 pilots on twin-engined Airspeed Oxfords at RAF Banff between May 1943 and August 1944:-

Banff, on the Moray coast, is the former county town of the historic county of Banffshire. The War Memorial  is on Castle Street, the main A 98 road through the town. Its form combines an obelisk and a memorial wall:-

Great War Names, William Aitken – Andrew Mair:-

Great War Names, James Mair – Robert Wright:-

World War 2 Names, Peter M Adam – James Mair

World War 2 Names, John Mair – George Wood:-

Duff House was bombed in 1940 and the extension to the right of the house as you look at the entrance was badly damaged.

Unfortunately eight men, two Britons and six German POWs from the Kriegsmarine held at Duff House at the time were killed.

A memorial to them and to those wounded at the same time lies just to the east of the house:-

Memorial plaque:-

This commemorates “the North East’s own Regiment,” 1794 – 1994. It’s off Castle Street just before the archway at the Simpson Building at Gordon Schools.

Private G H R Bell, Gordon Highlanders, 19/2/1940. Private W Pake, Gordon Highlanders, 29/10/1940, aged 57. Private J Mitchell, Pioneer Corps, 7/11/1940:-

Private F A Dorkes, Royal Scots, 16/5/1942, aged 20. Private G Duncan, Pioneer Corps, 21/8/1942:-

Six graves:-

Seven graves:-

Six more graves:-

Another six:-

Five war graves:-

Again six:-

To left; W A Barclay, Gordon Highlanders, 13/9/1964, aged 48. Private R A Rae, Gordon Highlanders, November 1940. To right; Driver A Gilhooley, RASC, 29/12/1939:-

Two post-World War 2 graves. Trooper H Caie, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, 24/8/1972, aged 19. Lance Corporal W A McIntyre, Queen’s Own Highlanders, 11/9/1972, aged 23:-

Trinity Cemeteries lie on both sides of Park Road, Aberdeen. While I was walking past on my way back to the car after Sons League Cup defeat to Aberdeen at Pittodrie in July last year I noticed the Cross of Sacrifice and the Commonwealth War Graves sign on the gates so had to take a look.

The cemeteries contain the graves of over 170 Great War service personnel and over 100 Second World War graves.

Cross of Sacrifice:-

Further in is a Stone of Remembrance:-

Grave of Private R E Dingwall, Pioneer Corps, 2/6/1944, aged 19:-

Aircraftman W J Deans, RAF, 29/12/1942:-

Sergeant G Brand, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RAF, 22/1/1944, aged 20:-

Great War Memorial, St Machar’s Cathedral:-

Second World War Memorial:-

Boys’ Brigade Memorial:-

Memorial to John Eugene Crombie, Gordon Highlanders, 23/4/1917, died of wounds:-

Memorial to mediaeval poet John Barbour, the father of Scottish literature with his epic poem The Brus, which predates Chaucer. Barbour was an archdeacon in St Machar’s and is buried in the kirk:-

Unfortunately I must have moved the camera when I pressd the shutter here:-

Effigy of Bishop Lintoun:-