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Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 17 September 1921 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19210917/025/0003 STONEYWOOD WORKS WAR MEMORIAL. DIRECTOR'S WARNING. GERMAN INDUSTRY THE MENACE. With an impressiveness and solemnity appropriate to the occasion, a memorial was dedicated and unveiled yesterday at Stoneywood Works to the family and staff of Messrs Alex. Pirie and Sons, of Stoneywood, Woodside and Union Works, Aberdeen, who fell in the war. There was a large attendance of employees and friends at the ceremony, about 150 ex-servioe men being on parade under C.-S.-M. M'Lean, Commander W. B. Pirie, D.S.O., R.N., one of the directors, presided, and an address was delivered by Mr F. D. Pirie, chairman of directors, the unveiling ceremony being performed by Mr Martin Pirie, the oldest living member of the family. Among the other directors of the company present were Messrs. W. Alison, W. Y. Macdonald, H. A. D. Walton, A. Marr, and J. Cruickshank. After the lament, "The Flowers o' the Forest,'' had been played by Pipe-Major and Piper Cruickshank, Stoneywood, the Very Rev. Dean Wiseman, D.D., pronounced the dedicatory prayer. Mr F. D. Pirie said that the response of the family and the staff to the call to duty was one of which they were justly proud. They themselves required no memorial to remind them of what they did and sacrificed. That memorial after all thev were dead and forgotten, would remain to remind future generations of what those whose names were inscribed upon it did for Britain and for the world. There was little they could do to honour their memory, and the best way to do it was to endeavour to follow their example and to make the world a more pleasant one and better one to live in. Their death was a glorious one, and made their memory live for evermore. Menace of German Commerce. Mr Martin Pirie then unveiled the memorial, and, doing so, said he thought he was indebted tor that honour to the fact that he happened to be the oldest living member of the family connected with the company. HE was sure that he would be expressing the feeling of those present when he said that they all wished to be allowed to mingle their sorrow and sympathy with everyone who had to mourn the loss of a relation or friend. When he said that they owed that memorial as a tribute to their gallant friends and relations who so nobly sacrificed their lives in defence of their country, he thought they would agree with him that they also included in their debt of gratitude all those who fought in the war, the disabled and wounded, and those who were so fortunate to come scatheless out the conflict. They won the war by the supreme gallantry and fortitude of their sailors and soldiers, coupled with the brilliant generalship of Earl Haig, and hoped that they had, for some years at all events, disposed of the German military menace. He believed that it would be, however, unwise of them lull themselves into the belief that they were free from aggression from the German nation, Germans were a very highly educated people, very efficient, and most industrious, and if the British nation had learned its lesson from the war, it ehould prepare to face the menace of German industry and commerce. After Dean Wiseman had pronounced the benediction, the " Last Post " was sounded by Bandmaster Mitchell. The memorial takes the form of a handsome bronze tablet set in a granite wall at the entrance yard to the works and facing the main gate. It was designed by Messrs Gawthonpe and Company, London. a little niche at the top of the tablet is a circular engraving bearing the name and seal of the oompany. The inscription reads:— ''Sacred to the memory of the members of the family and of the staff of Alex. Pirie and Sons. Ltd., who gave their lives for their King and country the great European war. 1914-1919." At the base the tablet are the words — Their name liveth for evermore." Roll of Honour. The centre portion of the memorial contains the names of the fallen, to the number of 43. The following is the roll of honour :-