Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Berwickshire
- Town
- Cockburnspath
- County
- Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 28 April 1923
Attended by: Mrs Usher of Dunglass
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 53468
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Current location
just off the A1 at the entrance to the village
Cockburnspath
Berwickshire
Borders
TD13 5YG
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT77601 71136
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- STONE CROSS ON PLINTH WITH NAMES BASED UPON LARGE STONE BRICKS
- Inscription
- THESE MEN OF / COCKBURNSPATH / PARISH AND / DUNGLASS ESTATE / LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR / 194 -1919/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Binnie, G
Brown, G
Buglass, R S
Fairbairn, T
French, J D
Geddes, G W
Geddes, W B
Gray, T
Grieve, J S
Laing, J J
See details for all 36 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 36
Served and returned: 0
Died: 36
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- Condition
- Cockburnspath and the Dunglass Estate
- WMO ID: 168443
- Condition: Good [last updated on 04-10-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- The name of R Steel was added to the memorial in 2004
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic461.html
- The Scotsman 2 May 1923- COCKBURNSPATH - The memorial cross erected by the inhabitants of the parish of Cockburnspath, Berwickshire was unveiled on Saturday by Mrs Usher of Dunglass, when a large company was present. A short address was given prior to the unveiling by the Earl of Home.
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