Boer War Veterans Memorial, commemorates those who served in the Second Boer War, aka the South African War. Pittodrie Stadium in background:-

Memorial to those who left their bodies for Scientific Research:-

Cross commemorating victims of a German air attack on a fishing vessel, 1939:-

Royal British Legion Commemoration Stone:

Memorial to Great War Naval Losses:-

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:-

I found two minor Art Deco buildings.

The Scotmid Coop:-

And this one, a hair salon:-

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

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

St John’s Kirk, Perth was restored after the Great War by the architect Robert Lorimer to transform it into a memorial to the Perthshire dead of that war. (Lorimer also designed the elegant and iconic Commonwealth gravestone and over three hundred war memorials in Britain, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.)

Within its walls are memorials to two earlier wars.

Boer War Memorial:-

Crimean War Memorial (flanked by two memorials to individuals who died in earlier colonial endeavours):-

Boer War Memorial:-

Great War Memorial to Somerset freemasons. I don’t recall ever seeing a memorial to freemasons before:-

To Herbert Robert Charles Tudway, Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, died 18/11/1914 aged 26:-

To those who served in the Somerset Light Infantry:-

Roll of Honour, Somerset:-

Book of Remembrance pages. The book enumerates all Somerset natives who died in the Great War:-

Book of Remembrance pages for Bath:-

Somerset Light Infantry Battle Honours and names:-

Boer War Memorial Dedication:-

Name plaques:-

Memorial flags including the Chindits:-

World War 2 Roll of Honour, Staffordshire Regiment:-

Memorial, to Burmah Campaign, 1853:-

Sutlej Campaign, 1815/1816, Memorial:-

From Penrith’ s Memorial to the two World Wars it is a very short walk to its Boer War Memorial, within Castle Park. It is in the form of an angel of victory surmounting an embossed square pillar:-

Closer view:-

Names:-

In the background to my first photo of the Odeon Cinema in Ayr I noted a War Memorial. At First glance it seemd to be a (Second) Boer War Memorial but it’s a bit more comprehensive than that. It’s dedicated to the Officers, NCOs and men of the Royal Scots Fusiliers who died in the First Boer War, Sudan, Burma, Tirah as well as the Second Boer War.

Reverse view:-

Dedication:-

Names; Burma, Tirah, Second Boer War. The central brass plaque also mentions Blenheim, Oudenarde, Ramillies, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Bladensburg, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, South Africa 1879, Burma, Tirah, South Africa 1899-1902. :-

Names; Second Boer War:-

Names; South Africa 1879 and Transvaal, Soudan Expedition, the Nile 1884-5:-

On the stairwell of what was once a church, now a shopping arcade in Front Street, Tynemouth

This lies alongside the A 67 through the town a bit closer to the centre than the Boer War Memorial:-

Gate to garden:-

Stone in memory of the crew of Blackburn Botha L6416, “lost in these hills 22/8/1941.”:-

Stone in memory of the crew of Meteor NF11 WD 778 of RAF Leeming. “Lost in these hills 24/3/1954.”:-

Stone dedicated to the aircrews of all nations who lost their lives while serving with the RAF and Air Transport Auxiliary:-

“To remember all those of the Merchant Navy who died in war and peace.”:-

Since 1916, 47 RFC or RAF aircraft have been lost in flying accidents in Teesdale and the Western Pennines. Plaques in remebrance of Bill and Lella Eden founder members of the memorial garden and another to Squadron Leader Roger M Matthews, RAF, killed in a flying accident nearby on 6/8/1981.

This stands by the main A 67 through the town.

Dedicated “Pro Patria” in memory of the 3rd militia battalion of the Durham Light Infantry, the Imperial Yeomanry and local volunteers who died in South Africa.
The lower plaque describes the surrrounding area as a memorial garden to the men of Barnard Castle who lost their lives in the Second World War.

A further plaque facing the road commemorates all those from Barnard Castle who have died in conflicts or peacekeeping missions since World War 2.