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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Dumbarton
- Town
- Alexandria
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 26 June 1920
Attended by: Sir Ian Colquhoun, Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire - Rededicated
Date: 11 November 1998
Attended by: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 80707
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Current location
Val;e of Leven Academy
Main Street
Alexandria
Dumbarton
Strathclyde
G83 0BH
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 39061 79333
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Vale of Leven Academy
Middleton Street
Alexandria
Dumbarton
Strathclyde
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Vale of Leven Academy
Place of Bonhill
Alexandria
Dumbarton
Strathclyde
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Vale of Leven Academy
- Description
- Bronze Plaque in alabaster frame
- Inscription
- [not known]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aitchison, Andrew J
Aitchison, Thomas
Aitken, Robert
Angus, James F M
Bailes, John T
Bisland, James
Campbell, William
Constable, James
Davie, William
Dempster, William Y
See details for all 64 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 64
Served and returned: 0
Died: 64
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Alabaster - Book
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper
- Plaque
- Condition
- Vale of Leven Academy WW1 Plaque
- WMO ID: 214707
- Condition: Good [last updated on 14-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Memorial: £150
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=5951&mforum=warmemscot
- www.valeofleven.org.uk/contributions/VOLA-memorials.html
- www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news/13956325.war-log-discovered/ 11 November 2010 (Logbook containing details of the 64 former pupils killed found, as well as Minute book of Vale of Leven War Memorial Committee, and details of donations for that memorial)
- Scotsman 28 June 1920
- Glasgow Herald 28 June 1920
- www.valeofleven.org.uk/warmemorials3.html
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