Devonvale Mills was sited at Tillicoultry. The Memorial now lies beside a retail outlet.

Closer view:-

Dedication. Inscribed, “1939 – 1945. To the men of Devonvale Mills who gave their lives for their country” with names below:-

Reverse view. Sterling Mills warehouse across road.

Memorial gates:-

Memorial information board:-

Pilot Officer W Border, Flight Engineer, RAF, 4/11/1944, aged 22:-

This headstone commemorates two soldiers; Private N McLean, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 20/2/1919, aged 24. Also J McLean, served as Private J Lindsay, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 20/3/1919, aged 50:-

Corporal R Keir, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 27/10/1918, aged 26:-

Private John Paterson, RAF, 8/8/1918, aged 33:-

The grave of Bessie Sim Hunter – mentioned on the Information Board at Tillicoultry Cemetery. Stewardess B S Hunter, Women’s Royal Naval Service, 15/3/1919:-

Private J B Westwater, Royal Army Medical Corps, 6/11/1918, aged 24:-

Private W Ewing, Gordon Highlanders, 18/9/1916, aged 45:-

Sapper J W Sharp Royal Engineers, 15/2/1941, aged 48:-

Great War death dedication. James Fullarton Caldwell Conn, died in France, 1/5/1917 of wounds received in action near Arras, 23/4/1917. Interred at the cemetery of Wimereux:-

Tillicoultry War Memorial is a grey granite pedestal with the figure of a kneeling female holding a wreath.

It lies in a separate area in Tillicoultry Cemetery by the A 91 road on the east of the town.

The WW2 memorial is a memorial garden with the names of the fallen on individual “headstones” (to right.)

An information board mentions among others Bessie Sim Hunter, whose grave lies in the attached cemetery, a Great War casualty at Inverness Naval Station but not listed on the Memorial (which is dedicated to “The Men of Tillicoultry.”)

The Great War Memmorial is inscribed, “In ever grateful and proud remembrance of the men of Tillicoultry who died in the service of their King and country in the Great War. ‘They were a wall unto us both by night and day.’ 1914 – 1919”

WW2 Garden of Remembrance is to left:-

East aspect. Great War names:-

South Aspect, Great War names. WW2 Garden of Remembrance behind:-

North Aspect. Great War names:-

WW2 Remembrance Garden western arc:-

Central arc. The stone incorporated into the boundary railings is inscribed. “World War 1939 – 1945 Garden of Remembrance.”

Eastern arc:-

In the same street as Devonvale Hall (Moss Road, Tillicoultry) there are lots of thirties semi-detached houses all with Deco styling.

Rounded bay window surrounds. Windows and door replaced though:-

In Devonvale Crescent:-

Gatepost in Ann Street:-

Gatepost with house:-

Another Deco gateway in Ann Street:-

House and gateway, Ann Street:-

House at corner of Moss Road and Ann Street:-

Tillicoultry is in the heart of the country,* in Clackmannanshire.

Devonvale Hall in the town’s Moss Road is a belter of a 1930s building.

It looks like the windows were originally Critall but have been replaced.

Name cartouche:-

Offset view:-

Side windows:-

*Scots among you with long memories may remember this as a tag-line for a TV ad for a furniture retailer local to Tillicoultry.