Memorial

Huntly

Huntly War Memorial - Overview of the memorial

Source: Copyright Martin Briscoe

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Current Location

At entrance to Avenue leading to Gordon Schools, Castle Street, Huntly, Gordon, Grampian, AB54 8BP, Scotland

NJ 53000 40135

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Type of Memorial: Obelisk
WMR Reference Number: 8588
Description: An obelisk on elongated group of granite columns. The platform on top of the columns has a frieze and cornice. There is a dedication tablet (below which is one of the 2 WW2 names tablets), an epitaph tablet (below which is the 2nd of the 2 WW2 names tablets) and 4 WW1 names tablets.
Inscription: Tablet 1-MEN OF / HUNTLY / WHO FELL / IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 Tablet 2-THEIR LAND / THEY CROWNED / WITH FAME THAT / SHALL NOT DIE / IN DEATH THEY / DIED NOT BEING / RAISED ON HIGH / TO GLORY WITH / THE BRAVE Tablet 3- GORDON HIGHLANDERS/[names of officers and then of privates from Bowman to Chapman] Tablet 4-GORDON HIGHLANDERS/[names of privates from Duncan to Wilson] Tablet 5-[names in various regiments, then in Canadian and Australian forces] Tablet 6-[names in various other regiments, navy and air force] Tablet 7-[on the side of the tablet] 1939/-1945/[names Bain to Johnstone and George Mason] Tablet 8-[on the side of the tablet] 1939/-1945/[names Knight to Wilkie followed by the Matron Elizabeth Thomson] (NAMES ON THE SEPARATE PILLARS)

Maker(s): Messers John Fyte LTD, Designer
Messers A & J Loggie, Builder
F W Troup FRIBA, Architect
Morren & Co
Robert Warrack Morrison, Sculptor