Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Wigtown
- Town
- New Luce
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44448
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Current location
Parish Church
Main Street
New Luce
Wigtown
Dumfries And Galloway
DG8 0AJ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 17521 64506
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Tall smooth Celtic style wheel cross on square plinth and three stepped base. Set in recess in churchyard wall
- Inscription
- (ON WALL) THEIR NAME LIVETH/FOR EVERMORE (ON CROSS) 1914 - 1918 On the Plinth-TO THE GLORY OF GOD/AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE/MEN CONNECTED WITH THIS PARISH/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Hewitson, James
Keatings, James
Mclean, W J
Mcmeeking, Robert
Mcmeeking, William
Mcwhirter, Robert
Milroy, Thomas
Murray, John
Nish, Thomas
See details for all 9 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, date of death,regiment,forename,manner of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Wall
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Cross
- Condition
- New Luce
- WMO ID: 169120
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 13-03-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2014-Repairs undertaken by Scott McNeil at a cost of c £2,000. In particular the Celtic cross was made safe.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- New Luce Community Council
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1883
- Wigtownshire Free Press 24 Apr 2014-concerning the repairs
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