Gloucester is only 12 miles on from Cheltenham so we carried on to there the same afternoon.

We chanced upon Gloucester War Memorial and managed to get parked nearby.

I like the restraint of this one and the fact it’s at the edge of a piece of parkland. Unfortunately the road is quite busy, though; but at least that means lots of passers-by will see the memorial.

The cenotaph-like stone is surmounted by a lion and is inscribed to the men of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

The long low, curving wall with the central gap is dedicated to the men of Gloucester. Both top lines of names are for the Great War and the lower lines are for the Second.

On our recent trip down south we stopped off at Morecambe again. This time we stayed the night so I was able to take quite a few photos.

The War Memorial there has an imposing position overlooking the sea. The lion surmounting the plinth is a good touch.

This is the west side, commemorating WW 1.

There are more names on the north and south sides.

The east side commemorates WW 2.

You can glimpse part of the Midland Hotel in the background in this angle.

Just to the east of the main memorial there is a small garden area containing a memorial of the Burma Star Association.

The other side of this shows a stone poppy encircling a star.

I assumed the local regiments had been posted to Burma and the Burma Star Association website confirms Lancashire regiments were indeed involved there.

Cenotaph-like, this is an imposing structure on a hill above the southern approaches to Arbroath, overlooking the Firth of Tay and the North Sea.

WW1 names are on the front and back, WW2 on the sides. There is also one name from 1972 on the plaque added on the lower left.

The most prominent feature of Dundee Law is the War Memorial erected there.

The east side commemorates the men of Dundee who died in the First World War.

The west side commemorates the Second World War dead.

The door must allow access to the inside. Apparently the device at the top is a lantern of remembrance which is lit on four occasions through the year:
25th September; in memory of the Battle of Loos,
24 October; United Nations Day,
11 November; Armistice Day
and Remembrance Sunday.

This is the view of the Memorial from just in front of the radio/mobile phone mast which also sits on the summit. You can see the rail bridge across the Tay in the background to the right here.

In the gardens surrounding the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, inside a hedged enclosure just behind where I took the picture in the post linked to above there is a memorial to the Cameronians Regiment, also known as the Scottish Rifles, which has a long association with Glasgow.

The statuary is not, like some, a mawkish example of the form, representing as it does members of the regiment in action during the Great War. Indeed it is unusual in that it seems to depict one of the fallen – which such memorials tend to shy away from.

Front view

Side view

Wording on plinth

After Inveraray it was off round the headwaters of Loch Fyne. Hooking left at Strachur we went down the Cowal Peninsula. This took us along the shores of the stunning fresh water Loch Eck. The road runs along the (north) east side. In the late afternoon the water looked black in places, reflecting the hills on the other side like a mirror. A beautiful spot for a canoeing or fishing holiday if you’re into those.

Scotland is well served for lochs such as these; usually with steep sides. To my mind fresh water lochs are so much more scenic than sea lochs as they do not have margins scabbed by brown seaweed.

Destination was Dunoon.

I’d only ever visited Dunoon by ferry boat/paddle steamer before – probably en route to Rothesay on a “Doon The Watter” trip and I don’t remember actually setting foot in it.

Its heyday is obviously long past. The main street was shabby and a bit forlorn and the pavements up the town were festooned with weeds.

The Cowal peninsula was the territory of Clan Lamont. In our wanderings we found a memorial to the Lamont dead of the Civil Wars of the 1640s. (Wiki has this titled as The English Civil War but it was way more complicated than that with various shifting alliances involving the whole of the British Isles.)

The plaque with the names was a bit corroded so they are difficult to pick out.

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Down by the seafront just across from the ferry terminal at the pier there is a memorial to the Great War and World War 2 containing names of all those from the peninsula who died. As I recall, it (unusually) gave the names of nurses. Once again (as was also true at Inveraray) vastly more names for the Great War than the later one.

Round the coast, at Sandbank, there was another, this time dedicated to the more local dead of Sandbank and Ardnadam.

In days gone by, in the background to this memorial, you would have been able to see swathes of US Navy ships, or at least the anchorages they used, for this is Holy Loch which housed (harboured?) a Polaris missile submarine base. Note this is within twenty-five or so miles as the crow flies from Glasgow. Would such a thing ever have been allowed that short distance from London if the requisite deep water had been as close to it?*

*Edited to add:- Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet is based even closer to Glasgow; at Faslane in Gare Loch (the Gareloch as it’s known locally.)