Memorial
Airdrie Academy WW2
Current Location
Airdrie Academy, South Commonhead Avenue, Airdrie, Monklands, Lanarkshire, ML6 6NX, Scotland
OS Grid Reference
NS 76113 66478
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- WMR Reference Number
- 85619
- Description
- A memorial desk with a Book of Remembrance containing the names of sixty nine former pupils who died in WW2. An illuminated glass frontage recess contains the Book of Remembrance on a velvet cushion. The Book has the titles gold tooled on the cover and calligraphy on the inside pages.
- Inscription
- Front Cover- ROLL OF HONOUR/[School crest]/1939-1945 Page 1-ROLL OF HONOUR/1939 1945/[school crest]/AIRDRIE ACADEMY [each page has a different regimental or service crest at the top] Page 2-THEIR NAME LIVETH/They shall grow not old/as we that are left grow old./Age shall not weary them,/nor the years condemn,/At the going down of the sun/and in the morning/We will remember them./Binyon Page 3-[5 names Anderson to Callander] Page 4-[5 names Chapman to Colvin] Page 5-[5 names Comrie to Dunn Page 6-[5 names Ferguson to Grant] Page 7-[5 names Gray to Johnston] Page 8-[5 names Jones to Lawrie] Page 9-[5 names Loudon to McCracken] Page 10- [5 names McGarrie to McPheat] Page 11-[5 names MacPherson to Milin] Page 12-[5 names Mitchell to Nowell] Page 13-[5 names Patterson to Smith including the only female casualty] Page 14-[5 names Sneddon to Stewart] Page 15-[5 names Strickland to Timmons] Page 16-[4 names Tweedie to Wood]
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Number Commemorated
- 64
- Died
- 64
- Information shown
- surname, forenames, service or regiment
- Order of names
- surname
- Additional Information
- The female casualty, Margaret H Smillie of the WRAF (WAAF in the book), also lost a sister-Mary Donelly Smillie- who is not on the book (she died 3 months later and is in the same grave)
- War
- Second World War - civilians
- Number Commemorated
- 5
- Died
- 5
- Information shown
- surname, forenames, service
- Order of names
- surname
- Additional Information
- Merchant Navy
Components
- Desk
Made from: Wood - Oak
Condition: Good
- Book
Made from: Leather
Condition: Good
- Base
Made from: Unknown
Condition: Unknown
- Suite of Images of each page-http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=9945&mforum=warmemscot
- Coatbridge Express - Wednesday 30 November 1949 -UNVEILING OF ACADEMY WAR MEMORIAL-Solemn and Touching Service
- Memorial booklet containing names and photographs of former pupils of Airdrie Academy who paid the supreme sacrifice in the 1939-45 war. Published 1949.- features 69 portrait images of the fallen with details of their death- there is a copy at Airdrie Library.