A Celtic Cross sited near the Clunie Water:-

Closer view:-

Dedication and names:-

By the time we got to Balmoral it was far too late in the day for a visit. So we just scouted the outside.

Gates to Balmoral Estate. With monograms GR for George V and MR for Queen Mary:-

On the appraoch road from the car park lies a War Memorial unveiled by King George V in 1922.

Note the swastikas (or fylfots) at base of the inscription. These are in a different orientation to the later German swastikas and were good luck symbols.
The names on the upper block are of Balmoral estate employees, the lower ones are for men from the nearby village of Crathie.

Dedication plaque:-

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:-

We’d bypassed Craigellachie itself on our trip north in 2023, though I did photograph Thomas Telford’s bridge there.

On our way back down last July I actually stopped in the village to photograph its War Memorial which is a tapering pillar on a square plinth with rounded pediment; the whole surmounted by a cross. It’s beside the main A 95 road through Craigellachie village. The pillar seems a tiny bit squint in this view.

Great War dedication and names:-

Second World War dedication and names:-

A supplementary stone on the ground by the mian memorial is dedicated to Lance Corporal Norman J Duncan, Royal Corps of Transport, 22/2/1989, Northern Ireland:-

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:-

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:-

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:-

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.)

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:-

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

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

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

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:-

Side view:-

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:-

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

The remaining Great War plaque:-