Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Gate
- District
- Gordon
- Town
- Kintore
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 4 May 1924
Attended by: Lieutenant Colonel J Dawson DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8596
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Current location
Kintore Parish Church
Kingsfield Road
Kintore
Gordon
Grampian
AB51 0UB
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 52809 10683
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Arched lych gate surmounted by Latin cross supported by rustic style pillars both sides and granite tablets with bearing names
- Inscription
- IN GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 / 1918 / "REMEMBER / THE LOVE OF THEM / WHO CAME NOT HOME / FROM THE WAR" / (NAMES) / THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD / AS WE WHO ARE LEFT GROW OLD / AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM / NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN / (NAMES) / ALSO IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN / THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945 / (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adams, George
Aiken, J G
Alcock, J A M
Alexander, J
Anderson, A
Anderson, J
Anderson, Kenneth J
Beaton, F
Beattie, John
Beddie, J
See details for all 98 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 80
Served and returned: 0
Died: 80
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank, regiment
Order of information: regiment THEN rank THEN surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 17
Served and returned: 0
Died: 17
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, service, decorations
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, service
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Gate
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Kemnay
- Gate
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Carter Postcard Collection
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=964&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=kintore&start=0&mforum=warmemscot
- Unveiling Ceremony - Press & Journal - 5 May 1924
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