Castletown is on the A 836 between the Castle of Mey and Thurso.

The War Memorial is to the north side of the road halfway through the village.

Dedication:- “Sacred to the memory of the men of this parish who died in the Great War 1914-1918. Their name liveth for evermore.”

Great War Names are on the main plaque, Second World War names on the lower one.

On the way out from IJmuiden as well as the windsurfers (see previous posts) we passed a fortified island, which is named Fortress Island.

I assume the fortifications were built by the Germans during World War 2 as part of their Atlantic Wall.

Industrial IJmuiden in the background:-

A bit further on. I can’t decide if the rectangular array is a set of solar panels. I think it must be, so obviously a much later addition:-

Are the serrated things in this view tank traps?

Memorial altar:-

Leuchars was home to an RAF base for almost 100 years starting in 1916 and ending in 2015. It now hosts an army base.

The RAF had a close association with St Athernase Church. The refurbishment going on (see previous post on St Athernase) meant the memorials had been temporarily removed from the walls.

Memorial to ex-cadets of 1302 (St Andrews) Squadron Air Training Corps who died in World War 2:-

547 Squadron Memorial:-

Memorial to the hospitality shown by the people of Leuchars to Dutch members of the armed forces during World War 2:-

Kemback is a village in the centre of Fife. It is near Cupar. The village is fairly off the beaten track so I hadn’t visited it before March last year.

The typically Scottish style Church is up quite a steep road off the one through the main part of the village and is a replacement for an older one. The War Memorial stands prominently beside it.

The Great War Memorial is a Celtic style cross with embedded sword and its plinth is inscribed, “In memory of the men of this parish who fell in the Great War 1914-1919.”

The Second World War Memorial is a plaque on the church wall. “1939-1945. In grateful memory of the menof Kemback parish who gave their lives in this war.”

There was one war grave in the cemetery, Private W Doig, Gordon Highlanders, 30/12/1919, one of the names on the Memorial. The poor soul lingered on for more than a year after the war ended.

Kilmadock Parish is in Stirlingshire and I believe Doune is its biggest settlement.

The obelisk style memorial on a square plinth with broader base base is prominently situated by the A 84 road between Stirling and Callander at its junction with George Street, Doune. The World War 2 Memorial pillar is to the extreme right here before the set of external stairs.

Closer view. The inscription reads, “To the glory of god and in memory of the men of the Parish of Kilmadock who gave their lives for King and Country in The Great War 1914-1919. See ye to it that these shall not have died in vain.”:-

World War 2 Memorial pillar (to right of the earlier Memorial.) The inscription reads, “1939-1945. During those years when our native land was in mortal danger these young men gave their lives for us. Ne Obliviscaris” (Ne Obliviscaris = Forget Not):-

World War 1 names, first plaque:-

World War 1 names, second plaque:-

After Stobhill we passed this church on the way back from Crichton Castle (and Collegiate Kirk) and I noticed the Commonwealth War Graves sign.

Cockpen is south of Bonnyrigg on the B 974 between Bonnyrigg and Gorebridge.

Inside the churchyard I found no fewer than twelve war graves.

(I have no idea why some of these don’t show as pictures on the blog but only as links to my Flickr.

Edited to add; they seem to be loading okay, now.)

Guardsman G Davis, Scots Guards, 20/4/1919:-

Sergeant T Smith, Air Gunner, RAF, 3/10/1943, aged 25. An urn in front of the gravestone commemorates Alice Cummings:-

Able Seaman A Raeburn, RNVR, HMS Dinosaur, 15/6/1943:-

Sapper J Murphy, Royal Engineers, 1/11/1918:-

Private R Millar, Highland Light Infantry, 5/5/1917, aged 24:-

Private A Ramage, Royal Scots, 27/4/1919:-

Gunner W Cranston, Royal Artillery, 15/3/1919, aged 20:-

Driver W Ward, Royal Field Artillery, 23/2/1919:-

Flight Sergeant J E A Huschmann, RAF, 8/5/1943:-

Guardsman G K Pringle, Scots Guards, 19/10/1916:-

Private J Allan, London Regiment, 16/2/1919:-

Private P Bennet, Royal Scots, 23/10/1919@-

Three gravestones in Crichton Collegiate Kirk yard commemorate war dead.

Private C McDonald, Royal Army Service Corps, died 27/10/1915, aged (indeterminate):-

W Archibald Callander, Major, The Black Watch, killed in action in Italy, 1944, aged 24:-

Alexander Borthwick, died of wounds in France, 9/6/1940, aged 26:-

Crichton Collegiate Kirk (see an earlier post) has four lovely stained glass windows.

The fourth is Crichton’s Great War Memorial:-

The wording reads, “To the glory of god and in loving memory of the men of Crichton parish and congregation who gave their lives in the war 1914-1919.”

The Second World War Memorial is a wooden panel below the Great War stained glass Memorial:-

It is dedicated “In honoured memory of (those) who fell in the World War 1939-1945”:-

Is situated in the school’s hall.

Fortingall is a village in Perth and Kinross, fairly remote. Go to Kenmore at the foot of Loch Tay, take the road along the north shore of the loch and turn right at Fearnan – and you’ve still a few miles to go.

The War Memorial lies in a walled off area just outside the churchyard:-

This is the view of the kirk through the gates seen to the left above:-

Fortingall’s War Memorial Inscriptions read, “To the glory of god and in memory of those from Fortingall district who fell in the Great War 1914-1919,” and below, “They died that we might live.” Both inscriptions are also rendered in Gaelic.:-

The 1939-45 names are engraved on one side of the Memorial:-

One of the gravestones in the kirkyard has war dedications. Pte Peter Cameron, 43rd Canadians, died of wounds in France, 12/10/1916, aged 29. Corp William Cameron, Scottish Horse, 5/3/1919, aged 36:-