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:-

B&W, 1996, 246 p, plus 2 p Introductory Note. First published in 1952.

Being the last in the saga of the Moorhouse family as outlined in the Wax Fruit trilogy and Aunt Bel.

This instalment starts in 1900 and focuses on Robin Hayburn, adopted son of shipyard owner Henry Hayburn. Though Robin is Henry’s natural son from a liaison he had in Vienna and has been officially adopted by Henry and his wife Phœbe (the youngest of the Moorhouses) after his mother died in a fire at the Opera House, his true origins have been kept from him. Henry wishes his son to follow him into the shipyard business but Robin is more inclined to poetry and writing, a prime source of conflict between them. To give some temporal colour, Aunt Bel is worried by the fact her son Tom Moorhouse is a soldier serving in the war against the Boers in South Africa.

When Robin develops signs of consumption it is decided to send him to Mentone in the south of France for its beneficial air. While there he meets Denise St Roch, friend of Lucy Hamont, the former Lucy Rennie, with whom Robin’s uncle David Moorhouse nearly made a fool of himself in The Philistines. At thirty, the experienced Denise is much older than Robin but she is a writer herself and has contacts in publishing. She offers him encouragement and a place to write in. Of course he falls for her.

There is nothing demanding about these books. They are designed to be easy reading and to bolster the sense of Glasgow its middle classes held of the city and themselves. None of the characters are drawn with sufficient depth to be more than pawns in the author’s hands. Sometimes that is all that is needed, though.

Pedant’s corner:- plus marks for the ligatures in Phœbe and mediæval. Otherwise; a missing comma before a piece of direct speech, a missing end quotation mark after a piece of direct speech, “Robert Burns’ poems” (Burns’s,) Dumbartonshire (the county is usually spelled ‘Dunbartonshire’, and was so officially in 1900 – and 1952,) “‘or anything, dear.’-Bel had not offered it-‘But it’s just’” (‘or anything, dear,’ – Bel had not offered it – ‘but it’s just’,) wistaria (wisteria,) a strait jacket” (a straitjacket.)

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:-

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.

In July we visited the Northumberland town of Hexham for the first time.

I spotted this statue to Lieutenant Colonel George Elliott Benson, Royal Regiment of Artillery, who died at the Second Boer War Battle of Braakenlagte, 30/10/1901.

Dedication:-