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:-

Alyth‘s War Memorial stands  quite a way out of the town at the junction of Meigle Road and Airlie Street:-

The Great War Memorial takes the form of a figure of Britannia on top of a tapering stone column. The Second World War Memorial lies on the wall behind:-

Side view of Britannia:-

Great War Dedication with Great War names:-

Other Great War names are on panels on the other sides:-

Off to the left as you look at the Memorial from the road is this commemoration of Alfred Anderson, the oldest surviving Scottish veteran of the Great War till his death in 2005:-

Second World War Memorial. The wall  bears a plaque containing names and two others stating “Your supreme sacrifice we will remember” and “Service not self.”

A closer view reveals one name for the Falklands conflict of 1982:-

Newtyle is a village in Angus, Scotland. We visited it the same day we went to Meigle.

Newtyle was the railhead for the first railway in North-east Scotland, the Dundee and Newtyle Railway, which used rope-hauled inclines, horses and sails to pull the carriages, before finally steam locomotives. This plaque commemorates it:-

Newtyle’s War Memorial is a segmented stone column at a crossroads to the northeast of the village:-

Nowadays the names are on two plaques and are mixed for the two World Wars originally they were carved into the stone. 20 of the 28 are for the Great War:-

Meigle is a village in Strathmore, Perth and Kinross.

We went there to see the Pictish Sculptured Stone Museum but unfortunately it was shut. We’ll get there another time.

I did manage to find the village War Memorial, a pair of gates at the entrance to the local Park:-

Great War Names:-

Second World War Names. These include the recipient of a Victoria Cross, Lieutenant Commander M D Wanklyn:-

I posted about the new external dedication plaque on the 252 Memorial Hall in Markinch here.

Such was the interest its appearance caused – despite there having been an internal dedication plaque (below) since at least 1993 – that it was thought a new plaque recording the names of the fallen ought to be installed as well.

Internal Dedication:-

The dedication of the new plaque required lots of paperwork and permissions but it wa s unveile din June last year:-

Ceremony:-

Name plaque to right:-

Band playing at dedication playing The Last Post:-

Tow Law is a town in County Durham. Tow rhymes with cow (and Law with law.)

Its War Memorial depicts a soldier advancing with rifle extended and was erected by the inhabitants of Tow Law, Thornley, Sunniside, Hedley Hope, East Hedley Hope and Satley. It stands by the A 68 which runs through the town at its confluence with the B 6297 to Wolsingham.

East aspect, Great War Names on column, Second World War on plinth below:-

Reverse (south) aspect:-

West aspect:-