Haworth’s War Memorial is a stone cenotaph standing just off the road at the junction of Bridgehouse Lane, Station Road, Brow Road and River View. It stop is inscribed with battle honours for France, Flanders, Gallipoli and Mesopotamia:-

From southwest:-

From east:-

The dedication and names are for the Great War only:-

Edgar Asquith – James E Holmes:-

John Holmes – Lewis Roper:-

Arthur Rushworth – Joseph Wright:-

Kirriemuir’s War Memorial is right at the top end of Kirriemuir Cemetery. It takes the form of a kilted Scottish soldier with raised rifle surmounting a square stone, elaborately capped block with columns at its corners containing WW1 names resting on a larger plinth with inscriptions all set on a stepped base.

The base is inscribed with the word “France.” The dedication reads, “This monument is raised to perpetuate the memory of the youth and manhood of the parish of Kirriemuir who fell in the service of their king and country in the Great War. It stands a tribute of homage to the fallen and an abiding inspiration to posterity. ‘Their name liveth for evermore.'” The panel holds names for the Great War:-

Each side of the memorial contains Great War names and that of an area of conflict, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli and Belgium:-

In front of the older memorial is a further granite plinth commemorating the dead of World War 2 with the dedication, “To perpetuate the memory of those who gave their lives in the World War 1939 – 1945” and names from the Black Watch, the Royal Navy, the RAF and the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force:-

On one side of the plinth are commemorated soldiers of the Gordon Highlanders, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Royal Scots and Royal Engineers:-

On the other the Royal Army Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Scots Guards, Seaforths and Royal Corps of Signals:-

Nearby is a War memorial bench:-

Left Hand Battle Honours Pillar. 1914,1915, Somme 1916-1918:-

Left Hand Battle Honours Pillar. Naval Actions, 1914 Land Actions:-

Right Hand Battle Honours Pillar. 1917, 1918:-

Right Hand Battle Honours Pillar. France 1918, Gallipoli, Egypt, Romania, Macedonia:-

Right Hand Battle Honours Pillar. Mesopotamia, Palestine, Italy, Russia (Archangel and Murman, ie Murmansk):-

Great War Names (i):-

Great War Names (ii):-

Gordon is in the part of the Borders region that was once called Berwickshire.

The memorial is unmissable as you come through the village from north to south.

It’s in the form of a Scottish wayside cross with Celtic ornamentation, and has apparently been moved from its original position in the public park to the crossroads at the centre of town.

It appears to bear only First World War names.* According to the Scottish War Memorials website there are Second World War dead for Gordon but the poster doesn’t say where they can be found.

*One of the names is for a soldier who ws killed in action in 1920. George Stuart Henderson had an unusually high number of decorations; VC, DSO and Bar, MC, and Mentioned in Despatches no less than 5 times. He died in the Arab revolt in what was then called Mesopotamia, now Iraq. Some things never seem to change.