Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Wigtown
- Town
- Inch
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 11 Apr 1920
Attended by: Earl & Countess of Stair
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44424
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Current location
Parish Church
Off the Stranraer Road NNW of Castle Kennedy
Inch
Wigtown
Dumfries And Galloway
DG9 8RU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 10043 60281
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Plaque placed in the recess formed by a bricked-up doorway
- Inscription
- THIS MEMORIAL, ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO THE MEN/ BELONGING TO THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)/ "THEY NEVER FAIL WHO DIED IN A GREAT CAUSE/ THEY BUT AUGMENT THE DEEP AND SWEEPING THOUGHTS/ WHICH OVERPOWER ALL OTHERS AND CONDUCT/ THE WORLD AT LAST TO FREEDOM"/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Brown, Thomas
Fagan, John
Fleming, Alexander
Forster, Andrew F
Forster, William
Hamilton, Thomas J
Hill, William
Jess, John
Kennedy, William
Kerr, Charles
See details for all 32 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 32
Served and returned: 0
Died: 32
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,regiment,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Plaque
- Condition
- Inch Parish WW1
- WMO ID: 215122
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 16-09-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
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