Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Wigtown
- Town
- Glasserton
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Before 29 September 1920
Attended by: Right Hon. Sir H. E. Maxwell, Bart., Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire. Admiral Johnston Stewart of Glasserton
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 5873
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Current location
Opposite the entrance to Glasserton Parish Church.
Junction of A746 and A747
Glasserton
Wigtown
Dumfries And Galloway
DG8 8LU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 42481 38325
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rough cut obelisk on tapering base of piled local stones. Kirkmadrine Cross on front face.
- Inscription
- THEIR / NAME / LIVETH / FOR / EVERMORE / IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN FROM GLASSERTON / PARISH WHO MADE THE SUPREME / SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1919 / (Names) / AND IN WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 / (Name)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, John
Broadfoot, Alexander
Carson, Robert John
Dodds, William John
Gordon, John
Griffin, George
Griffin, John
Hannah, Alexander
Maxwell, John
Mcculloch, James
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 17
Served and returned: 0
Died: 17
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, middle name, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Creetown - First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Obelisk
- Condition
- Glasserton Parish
- WMO ID: 182750
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 13-05-2020]
- 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=2097
- Canmore ID 60441 canmore.org.uk/site/60441/kirkmadrine-church-and-burial-ground Kirkmadrine Church And Burial-ground
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/196897/details/glasserton+parish+war+memorial/
- The Scotsman - Wednesday 29 September 1920 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19200929/414/0008 WAR MEMORIALS GLASSERTON The memorial to the men from Glasserton parish who fell in the war ….
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