Bowling is a village two miles east of Dumbarton on the A 814 road. It’s probably best known as being the western end of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

Its War Memorial is a stone Celtic Cross on a rough-hewn stone plinth lying at the edge of a small park to the north of the A 814:-

Stirling‘s War Memorial is a stone obelisk on a hexagonal base located in a triangle at the junction of Albert Place and Corn Exchange Road.

From Corn Exchange Road:-

Close up:-

Dedications:-

Name plaques:-

Unveiling infoprmation:-

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The memorial, an obelisk embossed with a sword above a square plinth, was originally dedicated for the Great War, the dead of which it commemorated, and stands on a hill with a view down Cowdenbeath’s High Street. There is also a dedication to those who fell in the Second Word War but their names are on a separate memorial in the town.

Cowdenbeath Great War Memorial South Aspect. Names: Adams – Davidson:-

East Aspect. Names: Ferguson – Lister:-

North Aspect. Names: Lockhart – Scott. Cowdenbeath High Street behind:-

West aspect. Names: Scott – Young:-

A Great War 100^th Anniversary Bench and Soldier lies at the end of Cowdenbeath High Street below the hill where the War memorial stands:-

I featured Cowdenbeath’s Second World War memorial here but took this photo of it with added Great War soldier outline and Great War anniversary bench just after I photographed the above:-

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Plaque dedicated to the men of St John’s Kirk:-

Burma Star Association flag and plaque. The plaque bears the Kohima Epitaph:-

Upper memorial for the Scottish Area Women’s Royal Army Corps and lower one for the Royal Army Service Corps in both wars:-

Parachute Regiment and British Special Airborne Forces Memorial:-

Tapestry Memorial to 51st Highland Division:-

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War Memorial alcove, St John’s Kirk, Perth:-

Great War Memorial (to left above):-

Below the memorial are two Rolls of Honour. The first below takes in Perthshire and also covers World War 2 as may the second:-

Great War Memorial to men connected with St John’s East Parish Church:-

Masonic Great War Memorial:-

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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):-

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Chancel and altar:-

There is a stained glass window in a striking blue:-

More usual kind of stained glass:-

More stained glass. In memory of Eliza Jane Macab:-

And one to the Black Watch:-

An embroidery, “The Stone Ship Rising”:-

A chair in  memory of a former Minister of the Kirk:-

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St John’s Kirk, Perth, lies in the centre of the city. It is the site of the city’s War Memorial, which I shall feature later. There is a newer, indeed relatively recent, war memorial to the exterior of the Kirk in St John Street.

This is dedicated to all who gave their lives in the service of their country:-

The Kirk had an open day last September so we took the opportunity for a look around. Model of Kirk:-

Different angle. Pity about the reflections:-

The font:-

This pew had unusual dog-shaped finials:-

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The entrance to Dumbarton Castle is up a flight of stairs which has a left turn on the way up. On the wall facing you as you turn is this War Memorial dedicated to the officers and men of the 9th Battalion (Dunbartonshire,) Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Higlanders:-

An arch with a cross in the gap, lanterns to either side.

I have featured this memorial before but it was partly obscured by a street fair then. In September 2023 it wasn’t.

Great War Dedication and names:-

World War 2 Dedication and names. Also on  pavement below the inscription, “220 miles to Ypres”:-

This time were able to get into the street behind the memorial where there was an assortment of wreaths:-

The plaque to the right above is a Victoria Cross commemoration. Lt Colonel Philip Bent, Leicestershire Regiment, 1/10/1917:-

Close up on tributes to left above:-

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