Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Inverness
- Town
- Stratherrick
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6035
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Current location
East Side of B862
about 1 mile south of Errogie
Stratherrick
Inverness
Highland
IV2 6UJ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 54598 20829
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Octagonal granite column on pedestal on 3 stepped base, surmounted by unusual four-armed cross - presumably designed so that a cross can be seen from any angle. The inscription, in lead lettering, is on the pedestal. The memorial covers Coulintyre, Knock Garroch, Lyne, Errogie, Corriegarth, Foyers, Lochgarthside, Murnich, Whitebridge, Aultnagoire, Inverfarigaig, Bunchrubin and Glenlia Note: Access up to the memorial is over the rock face with no footpath.
- Inscription
- Lintel Stone in the wall- STRATHERRICK/WAR MEMORIAL 6 o'clock face-TO/THE GLORY OF GOD/AND/IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/FROM STRATHERRICK/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock and top of 3 o'clock faces-[WW1 names] "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"/"BIDW AN ACUS AN CLIU BUAN" 3 o'clock face- 1939 1945/[names]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, George
Bethune, Alec
Cairney, Peter
Cameron, Duncan
Cameron, John
Cameron, John
Cameron, Simon
Campbell, Wm.
Chisholm, Alick
Chisholm, James
See details for all 48 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 34
Served and returned: 0
Died: 34
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, forenames, surname, regiment, home village
Order of information: home village THEN surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forenames, surname, service
Order of information: service THEN surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, rank, service
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Stone of remembrance
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Pedestal
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Lead - Lettering
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Plinth
- Condition
- STRATHERRICK
- WMO ID: 116714
- Condition: Good [last updated on 05-09-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- In 2009 War Memorials Trust gave a grant of £871 towards the re-painting of the inscriptions with black enamel paint.; March 2017 to October 2018-general site maintenance, name stone added at road side and information board om a stone plinth containing the inscriptions added at the road side. Request to move the memorial elsewhere for better access rejected
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Image of the gravestone of Murdo Macleod, at Boleskine Cemetery, one of the victims of the Foyers factory bombing-scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves-ftopic800.html
- Article about the bombing of the Foyers factory 13 February 1941-www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/72/a2024272.shtml
- War Memorials Trust WM3181 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=515
- Names Transcription-warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=4539&mforum=warmemscot
- For lots of photographs and details about the 2018 changes-southlochnessheritage.co.uk/stratherrick-war-memorial/
- Lest You Forget Stratherrick southlochnessheritage.co.uk/south-loch-ness-booklet/
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