Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Ross And Cromarty
- Town
- Tain
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Maker
- J WIPPELL AND CO LTD (Manufacturer)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 30 June 1922
Attended by: Colonel Sir Hector Munro of Foulis, Bart., Lord Lieutenant of Ross & Cromarty. Rev. Messrs. Cameron, Thomson and Mackenzie.
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44569
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Current location
On the north wall. Church is not lit inside
torch needed.
St Duthus' Collegiate Church
Castle Brae
Tain
Ross And Cromarty
Highland
IV19 1EL
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 78017 82188
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Nowy headed brass plaque with an additional brass plaque for WW2 mounted below it. Both sit on a marble backboard. Figures of a scholar with a cloak, book and stick and a killed soldier with a rifle flank the WW1 names. Etchings of an aircraft and a naval vessel flank the WW2 names.
- Inscription
- WW1 Plaque-OUT OF WEAKNESS WERE MADE STRONG WAXED VALIANT IN FIGHT TURNED TO/FLIGHT THE ARMIES OF THE ALIENS/ 1914- 1918/ IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY/OF THE MEN OF TAIN/WHO FELL/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ (Names) WW2 Plaque- 1939 - 1945/ (Names in 5 columns)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adamson, John
Anderson, W
Birnie, J
Bruce, W
Budge, J Henry
Cameron, A Ian D
Cameron, Allan
Cameron, K R
Cameron, Wm.
Campbell, H
See details for all 148 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 122
Served and returned: 0
Died: 122
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forenames, surname, regiment
Order of information: rank THEN surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 25
Served and returned: 0
Died: 25
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,regiment, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank, service
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- First World War memorial
- Condition
- Tain War Memorial
- WMO ID: 230540
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 24-07-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND by GIFFORD, JOHN Highlands & Islands (1992) p. 459 Source: Image Library '... bronze (sic) memorial tablet with incised figures of a schoolboy and a soldier...1922.'
- Photo & Transcription of the WW2 Brass-www.rossandcromartyheritage.org/communit/p37/ht/rs/war memorials/War_memorials/tain_wm/t33_wm04.html
- Photo & Transcription of the WW1 Brass-www.rossandcromartyheritage.org/communit/p37/ht/rs/war memorials/War_memorials/tain_wm/t33_wm03.html
- Overall view of the 2 brasses-www.rossandcromartyheritage.org/communit/p37/ht/rs/war memorials/War_memorials/tain_wm/t33_wm02.html
- Ross Shire Journal 8 July 1922
- Scottish War Memorials Project warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic3838.html
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