Dining room:-

Ceiling of Library (formerly the servant’s Hall)

Window recess, Library. Note thickness of the wall, for defensive purposes:-

The muniments room was where the owner did his accounts and doled out money. The chair is said to be very old:-

Door to sitting room:-

Sitting room:-

Sitting room fireplace:-

Sitting room ceiling:-

van Dyk portrait of King Charles I in Drum Castle. Sadly photo did not turn out well:-

Bedroom:-

War Death Commemoration, Chapel, Drum Castle. Lieutenant Robert Hugh Irvine, the Gordon Highlanders, aged 22 years, killed at Singapore, 13/2/1942:-

A red stone slab pillar built with Celtic bas-relief carving and two cast bronze name panels:-

Upper plaque, inscribed, “To the glorious memory of men from Marykirk who fell on active service 1914 – 1919,” Great War names, then below, “May we be worthy of their sacrifice”:-

Lower plaque, to, “Those who fell in the Second World War” followed by the names:-

Memorial bench behind memorial:-

Lauder is a village on the A 68 about 27 miles south of Edinburgh. Its War Memorial is a stone pillar on an octagonal base, surmounted by a lion.

Dedication, “Erected in memory of those from the Parish and Burgh of Lauder who laid down their lives in the War of 1914 – 1918. Their names will live for ever.”
Lower panel, “1939 – 1945,” and names:-

Great War Names, officers and men, Allan – Brown:-

Great War Names, Bruce – Middlemiss:-

Great War Names, Moore – Welsh:-

Finial, inscribed, “1914-1918”

War Memorial from Road:-

From path:-

“To the memory of those frorm the Wooler District who fell in the Great War 1914-1919. Their name liveth for evermore.”

“No hate was theirs, no thirst for fame, when forth to death by homour sent. Life beckoned sweet, the Great Call came, They knew their duty and they went.”

Great War: Armstrong – Deedes
WW2 names: Brewis – Eliot:-

Great War names: Fettis – Lambton:-

Great War names: Leach -Thomson.
WW2 names: Murdie – Smith J:-

Great War Names: Smart A – Taylor:-

World War 2 names: Forster – Lowrie:-

On the way back up from Peterborough we stopped at Wooler in Northumberland (Northumbria as was.) It’s one of our favourite places.

It being 2018 the local church was hosting an exhibition on the aniversary of the Great War’s end, featuring photographs and information about local lads who had served.

The church itself contained two War Memorials – one was a Roll of Honour for Wooler Church School, inscribed at top, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

The other was dedicated to members of the congregation. There were two name boards, the first inscribed, “To the glory of God and in memory of the men of …” The inscription carries on to the next board.

Inscription carried on from previous board, “… the Parish of Wooler who gave their lives in the Great War AD, 1914-19.”
Next board says, “In memory of those who fell in the Second World War 1939-45.”

Stained glass in church:-

Grave of J Stothert, Tyneside Irish Northumberland Fusiliers, 12/8/1917, aged 45:-

This memorial in Peterborough’s town centre looks modern, probably erected for the 100th Anniversary of the Great War.

This side is inscribed, “Lest We Forget.”

Reverse:-

Matlock Bath is a village in Derbyshire, 1½ miles from Matlock on the A6 and by the River Derwent.

As we were to be travelling along the A6 and I have a crested china model of Matlock Bath’s War Memorial I was keen to stop and photograph the real thing. It lies between the main street and the river in a little wooded area and would be easy to miss if you’re just passing through.

It’s slightly unusual in style bearing the figures of a soldier and sailor holding a Union flag.

The inscription reads, “Our glorious dead,” and, “In honoured memory of the men of Matlock Bath who gave their all in the Great War of Nations 1914 – 1919,” with at the bottom of the column, “Their name liveth for evermore.”

An information board sits to its side:-

Memorial from West, inscribed , “Duty nobly done, Honour bravely won, Loyal hearts now rest, By God’s peace now blest.”

From north, inscribed, “Also in honoured memory of the men who gave their lives in the World War 1939 -1945.”

From east, inscribed, “Greater Love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

Further along Matlock Bath’s main street there is a café with hints of Art Deco:-

Coniston is a village in Cumbria in the English Lake District, near the lake which also bears the name (Coniston Water.) Its War Memorial is a cross with Celtic styling. Inscribed, “These men of Coniston gave their lives for their country 1914 – 1918,” followed by the Great War names and below, “1939 – 1945,” with Second World War Names beneath it:-

Very close by there is a memorial to a Victoria Cross awardee, Lance Corporal James Hewitson, King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regiment, 26/4/1918:-

Lance Corporal Hewitson was one of the luckier VC recipients. His grave, to the right of the War Memorial in the first photo above, shows he died on 2/3/1963:-

Though the lake is not easily visible from the village its approaches and main street are dominated by a hill, the Old Man of Coniston:-

I had forgotten I’d photographed Menstrie War Memorial before, in 2013, so in 2018 I did so again.

The town is in Clackmannanshire. Its War Memorial is a stone column in a park area to the west of the town.

The main plaque is inscribed, “1914 – 1918. They who are commemorated here at the call of King and country left all that was dear to them and gave up their lives that others might live in freedom. Let those that come after them see to it that their names are not forgotten,” with the names following. Base of column reads, “1914 – 1918.” The lower plaque bears “1939 – 1945” and the relevant names.

Another additional plaque commemorates Polish soldiers stationed in Menstrie who died in the Second World War.

In St Serf’s churchyard, Dunning (see previous post,) there are two Commonwealth War Graves

Lance Corporal W L Crowe, 5th Battalion, Australian Infantry, 6/7/1918, aged 24:-

Corporal A G Small, Army Catering Corps, 15/12/1944, aged 22:-

In the churchyard another gravestone commemorates William Duncan, 1st Scots Guards, died of wounds in France, 13/12/1916 aged 32:-

A plaque in St Serf’s itself remembers Major Norman Chetwynd Rollo, KOSB, died of wounds in Belgium, September, 1944, aged 28:-

A burn runs through the village and under the main road. It forms a backstop to the foot of this garden:-