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Arbirlot War Memorial, Arbirlot Churchyard

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.)

Great War Memorial Window, Arbirlot

Arbirlot Great War Memorial

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:-

Commonwealth War Grave, Arbirlot

Munro Park, killed in action in Crete, 2/6/1941, aged 22;-

War Death Commemoration, Arbirlot

Joseph Frain Webster, killed in action, Ypres, 30/10/1914:-

Arbirlot, War Death Commemoration

Andrew Turpie Butchart, killed in action, France, 29/7/1918, aged 34:-

Commemoration of War Death, Arbirlot

War Memorial, Blairgowrie and Rattray

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:-

War Memorial, Blairgowrie, Statue of Soldier

Side view:-

Blairgowrie War Memorial

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:-

Blargowrie War Memorial detail

War Memorial, Blairgowrie

One of the plinth’s sides has an additional plaque for a Korean War death:-

War Memorial, Blairgowrie

The remaining Great War plaque:-

Blairgowrie War Memorial, Great War Names

Alyth War Memorial

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

Alyth War Memorial

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:-

War Memorial, Alyth

Side view of Britannia:-

Britannia, Alyth War Memorial

Great War Dedication with Great War names:-

Alyth War Memorial Great War Dedication

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

War Memorial, Alyth, Names

Great War Names, War Memorial, Alyth

Alyth War Memorial, Great War Names

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:-

Alyth, Memorial to Alfred Anderson

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.”

Alyth Second World War Memorial

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

Second World War Names, Alyth War Memorial

 

 

 

Newtyle, Angus

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:-

Railway Plaque, Newtyle

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

Newtyle War Memorial

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:-

War Memorial , Newtyle, Names

Newtyle War Memorial, Names

 

Meigle War Memorial

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:-

War Memorial, Meigle

Great War Names:-

Great War Names, Meigle War Memorial

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

World War 2 Names, Meigle War Memorial

 

War Memorial, Tow Law

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.

War Memorial, Tow Law

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

War Memorial, Tow Law, East Aspect

Reverse (south) aspect:-

Tow Law War Memorial Reverse

West aspect:-

Tow Law War Memorial, West Aspect

War Memorial, West Auckland

West Auckland is a village in County Durham through which the A 68 road passes north/south. Its War Memorial is a repurposed water fountain (originally known as ‘The Pant,’ built in 1848 and redicated for Queen victoria’s 60th Jubilee) and is situated on West Auckland’s West Green. A War Memorial bench  is to the left below and the structure is flanked by two ‘ghost soldiers’:-

West Auckland War Memorial

War Memorial, West Auckland, County Durham

Wording on plaque on ‘The Pant’:-

War Memorial dedication:-

Dedication, West Auckland  War Memorial

Name plaques. Northern Ireland commemoration on right hand one:-

Name Plaques, West Auckland  War Memorial

The Church, Hindeloopen and Commonwealth War Graves

Hindeloopen’s church, the Grote Kerk, is hard to miss. It’s dedicated to St Gertrude.

Church, Hindeloopen, The Netherlands,

From another angle you can see its spire leans:-

Leaning Spire on Hindeloopen Church

In the churchyard are the graves of eleven Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War:-

War Graves, Hindeloopen

 

Sergeant B W Palastanga, Observer, RAF, 7/11/1941 aged 21 and an Airman known unto God, a Sergeant in the RAF, 1/12/1941:-

Commonwealth War Graves, Hindeloopen

Flight Sergeant W H Chapman, RAAF, 22/1/1943, aged 26; Sergeant A B Springett, Wireles s Operator, RAF, 23/11/1943 aged 23; an Airman known unto God, an Officer RCAF, 29/11/1943. In background – an Airman of the RAF known unto God, 26/7/1944.:-

Hindeloopen, Commonwealth War Graves

Sergeant J O Organ, Air Gunner, RAF, 5/3/1943, aged 23; Sergeant R O Fulton, Flight Engineer, RCAF, 5/3/1943; an Airman of the RCAF, known unto God:-

Hindeloopen, 4 Commonwealth War Graves

Flying Officer G R Sugar, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RAF, 13/6/1943, aged 22; an RAF Airman of the 1939-1945 War, known unto God, 31/8/1943:-

2 Commonwealth War Graves, Hindeloopen

Church interior:-

Church Interior, Hindeloopen.

Organ loft:-

Church Organ, Hindeloopen

Bowling War Memorial

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:-

Bowling War Memorial

Name Plaques, War Memorial, Bowling

 

Stirling War Memorial

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:-

War Memorial, Stirling

War Memorial, Stirling

Close up:-

War Memorial, Stirling, Dedications

Dedications:-

War Memorial, Stirling, Dedications

Name plaques:-

Stirling War Memorial Name Plaques

Name Plaques, Stirling War Memorial 6

Unveiling infoprmation:-

Stirling War Memorial, Unveiled by Earl Haig

Stirling War Memorial Name Plaques

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