We’d bypassed Craigellachie itself on our trip north in 2023, though I did photograph Thomas Telford’s bridge there.

On our way back down last July I actually stopped in the village to photograph its War Memorial which is a tapering pillar on a square plinth with rounded pediment; the whole surmounted by a cross. It’s beside the main A 95 road through Craigellachie village. The pillar seems a tiny bit squint in this view.

Great War dedication and names:-

Second World War dedication and names:-

A supplementary stone on the ground by the mian memorial is dedicated to Lance Corporal Norman J Duncan, Royal Corps of Transport, 22/2/1989, Northern Ireland:-

This memorial to the men and women who served at RAF Banff lies beside the A 98 road between Banff and Portsoy.

Main plaque:-

Lower plaque:-

Memorial stone for Number 14 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit which trained 2,136 pilots on twin-engined Airspeed Oxfords at RAF Banff between May 1943 and August 1944:-

Banff, on the Moray coast, is the former county town of the historic county of Banffshire. The War Memorial  is on Castle Street, the main A 98 road through the town. Its form combines an obelisk and a memorial wall:-

Great War Names, William Aitken – Andrew Mair:-

Great War Names, James Mair – Robert Wright:-

World War 2 Names, Peter M Adam – James Mair

World War 2 Names, John Mair – George Wood:-

Duff House was bombed in 1940 and the extension to the right of the house as you look at the entrance was badly damaged.

Unfortunately eight men, two Britons and six German POWs from the Kriegsmarine held at Duff House at the time were killed.

A memorial to them and to those wounded at the same time lies just to the east of the house:-

Memorial plaque:-

Duff House is a stately home in Banffshire, designed by William Adam.

Frontage:-

East aspect (to right above) There was an extension here but it got bombed during World War 2:-

West aspect:-

A model is of the house as originally conceived is inside:-

Boer War Veterans Memorial, commemorates those who served in the Second Boer War, aka the South African War. Pittodrie Stadium in background:-

Memorial to those who left their bodies for Scientific Research:-

Cross commemorating victims of a German air attack on a fishing vessel, 1939:-

Royal British Legion Commemoration Stone:

Memorial to Great War Naval Losses:-

Private G H R Bell, Gordon Highlanders, 19/2/1940. Private W Pake, Gordon Highlanders, 29/10/1940, aged 57. Private J Mitchell, Pioneer Corps, 7/11/1940:-

Private F A Dorkes, Royal Scots, 16/5/1942, aged 20. Private G Duncan, Pioneer Corps, 21/8/1942:-

Six graves:-

Seven graves:-

Six more graves:-

Another six:-

Five war graves:-

Again six:-

To left; W A Barclay, Gordon Highlanders, 13/9/1964, aged 48. Private R A Rae, Gordon Highlanders, November 1940. To right; Driver A Gilhooley, RASC, 29/12/1939:-

Two post-World War 2 graves. Trooper H Caie, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, 24/8/1972, aged 19. Lance Corporal W A McIntyre, Queen’s Own Highlanders, 11/9/1972, aged 23:-

Great War Memorial, St Machar’s Cathedral:-

Second World War Memorial:-

Boys’ Brigade Memorial:-

Memorial to John Eugene Crombie, Gordon Highlanders, 23/4/1917, died of wounds:-

Memorial to mediaeval poet John Barbour, the father of Scottish literature with his epic poem The Brus, which predates Chaucer. Barbour was an archdeacon in St Machar’s and is buried in the kirk:-

Unfortunately I must have moved the camera when I pressd the shutter here:-

Effigy of Bishop Lintoun:-

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.)

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:-

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

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

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

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:-

Side view:-

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:-

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

The remaining Great War plaque:-