Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Gordon
- Town
- Kirkton of Culsalmond
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Messrs W. Mackay and Son, Holland Street, Abderdeen (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 30 November 1919
Attended by: Rev. Mr Hutcheson, U.F. minister - Dedicated
Date: 30 November 1919
Attended by: Mr Murdoch - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8571
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Current location
Up road running North from A920 Kirkton of Colsalmond crossroad. On wall of burial ground near old church.
Kirkton Of Culsalmond Old Parish Church
Cadgers' Road
Kirkton of Culsalmond
Gordon
Grampian
AB52 6UN
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 64994 32925
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Oblong white Creetown Granite tablet with classical pilasters flanking inscription and names and a Grecian pediment. Mounted onto external wall.
- Inscription
- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THESE MEN IN THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / (Names) / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT / A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" / JOHN 15, 13.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Catto, Alexander
Clarke, Charles
Coutts, James
Florence, John
Gordon, David C.
Inglis, William
Ingram, William A.
Keith, James M.
Lumsden, John
Mann, Peter
See details for all 20 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, initials, surname
Order of information: Alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Creetown - Lettering
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Lead
- Tablet
- Condition
- Culsalmond Memorial Tablet
- WMO ID: 217119
- Condition: Good [last updated on 07-10-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Partially concealed by shrubbery.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Aberdeen Daily Journal, pg 3; December 2, 1919. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19191202/016/0003 CULSALMOND MEMORIAL DEDICATED-The tablet is a beautiful piece of white Creetown granite let into the wall and supported on blocks. The inscription and names are sunk in leaded letters, and two fluted pillars in bas relief support the top. The work was executed by Messrs W. MacKay and Son, Holland Street, Aberdeen.
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