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    Memorial

    Gorgie Board

    Entire Memorial, including fender-seat and marble hearth

    Source: Chas (WMO 139703)

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    Current Location

    Gorgie War Memorial Hall, 338, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, Lothian, EH11 2QU, Scotland

    OS Grid Reference

    NT 22713 72241

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    88829
    Description
    An ornately-carved fire-surround and fender-seat, made of fumed oak, with an inset marble back-panel and hearth. The oak surround has pilasters and a triangular pediment; the names of the Fallen are carved on the upper and lower wooden panels. [This memorial is within the War Memorial Hall, our record of which is WMR 60021. The hall was opened in 1923; the inscribed fire-surround was installed in 1928].
    Inscription
    Pediment: 1914 1919 Upper section: GORGIE WAR MEMORIAL/ (names in 4 columns) Lower section: FOR KING & COUNTRY/ (names on panels either side of the fireplace
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    240
    Died
    240
    Information shown
    Surname, forenames, rank, military unit, decorations
    Order of names
    Listed alphabetically by surname in the 4 columns of upper section, and in random order on lower section.
    Maker(s)
    • Messrs John Taylor & Son, Edinburgh, Makers

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    08 July 1928

    Lord Provost Sir Alexander Stevenson performed the unveiling

    Components

    Board

    Height: 3150mm

    Width: 2100mm


    Made from: Wood - Oak


    Condition: Good


    • Edinburgh Evening News - Saturday 02 April 1927 (page 2) printed the announcement: 'GORGIE WAR MEMORIAL TABLET. RELATIVES and FRIENDS of DECEASED SOLDIERS are requested to give NAMES of the MEN OF GORGIE WARD WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR. Cards to enter full particulars may be had from Mr WM. BURT, 201 Gorgie Road'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19270402/056/0002
  • Edinburgh Evening News - Saturday 09 April 1927 (page 8) printed a drawing of the board with the report: 'GORGIE WAR MEMORIAL TABLET The photograph shows the design of the Gorgie War Memorial Tablet, which is to be erected in the Gorgie War Memorial Hall, Edinburgh. The tablet will be constructed of fumed oak and richly carved. The names of those who made the supreme sacrifice will be inscribed on four panels which occupy the upper part of the tablet. The lower portion of the tablet is fitted with an electric fire, with marble cavettoes and marble back panel. The hearth is similarly treated. An oak fender seat, which will also serve as a protection rail, completes the scheme. The height of the tablet is ten feet six inches, and the width seven feet. The work has been designed arid is being executed by Messrs John Taylor & Son, 110 Princes Street, Edinburgh'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19270409/223/0008
  • The Scotsman - Tuesday 10 July 1928 (page 7) reported: EDINBURGH AND SOUTH-EAST. GORGIE WAR MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILED. A tablet, placed in the Gorgie War Memorial Hall, bearing the names of those from Gorgie district who had made the supreme sacrifice, was unveiled by Lord Provost Sir Alexander Stevenson at a crowded meeting on Sunday. Mr William Burt presided, and on the platform were the Rev. William Kilpatrick, the Rev. J. M. B. Duncan, Mr Ian Maclntyre, M. P.; Bailie Millar, Councillor Mrs Eltringham Millar, Councillor Andrew Young, Mr Vivian Phillipps, Mr Charles Nightingale, S.S.C.; Mr Wilfrid Guild Normand; K. C.; Parish Councillors Mrs Graham and John Campbell, Major Bruce, and the members of the Gorgie War Memorial Committee, with the honorary treasurer and secretary. The service was opened with prayer by Mr Kilpatrick. The Chairman explained that the efforts of the Committee for the past nine years had been to secure a hall for the Gorgie district. A public meeting was called, and the Committee realised that to build a hall as a memorial would fill a clamant need. In 1923 they purchased the present building, which was now free from debt. It was a great asset to Gorgie. The Committee, in their efforts to raise money, had tried concerts, flag days, carnivals, but, above all, had relied on the contributions from the people in Gorgie, and especially from the shopkeepers and merchants in the district. Mr Burt suggested that as a public clock was imperative in the district, the Committee might see their way some day to place one in the centre of the ground of the Gorgie War Memorial Hall. The Rev. J. M. B. Duncan, B. D., gave an address, after which the Lord Provost unveiled the tablet. The Tyne-castle Parish Church choir, under Mr Roy Hogg, rendered a programme of music appropriate to the occasion, and two soldiers of the Royal Scots Greys sounded the Last Post. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19280710/226/0007
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