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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Banff And Buchan
- Town
- New Aberdour
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: June 1921
Attended by: MAJOR R DINGWALL-FORDYCE - Rededicated
Date: 10 November 1946
Attended by: Rev. A. M. Adams - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 5850
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Current location
St Drostan's Church
Elphin Street/High Street junction
New Aberdour
Banff And Buchan
Grampian
AB43 6HR
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 88486 63383
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Celtic granite cross on five stepped base.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock face: ERECTED/ IN HONOUR OF/ AND AS AN/ ABIDING RECORD/ OF THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE /GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ AND/ 1939-1945/ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"/ (Names in 2 columns) / 1914-1918 9 o'clock face: (names to Porter)/ 1939-1945 3 o'clock face: (names Robson to West)/ 1939-1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barclay, James
Beance, Alex.
Birnie, Harry C
Bisset, Alex.
Bruce, Robert
Catto, John
Coull, John B W
Davidson, William G
Forsyth, Edward G
Gatt, James H
See details for all 53 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: 0
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname THEN forename - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 31
Served and returned: 0
Died: 31
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname THEN forename
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: height 9144mm
Materials: Granite
- Memorial
- Condition
- New Aberdour
- WMO ID: 217638
- Condition: Good [last updated on 12-10-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=3012&highlight=aberdour&mforum=warmemscot
- Aberdour St Drostan's Church www.aberdourstdrostans.org.uk/index.html
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 31 October 1946 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19461031/111/0006 New Aberdour Memorial to Be Rededicated New Aberdour has been brought up to date by the addition of the names of those who lost their lives in the Second Great War. A rededication service will be held on November 10.
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