Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Banff And Buchan
- Town
- Portsoy
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians, Aden Emergency (1963-1967)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 11th November 1923
Attended by: Rev. A. G. Campbell - Rededicated
Date: 22nd June 1947
Attended by: Undefined - Unveiled
Date: November 11th 1923
Attended by: Col. J. J. George, Macduff, Convener of County (Duke of Richmond and Gordon was ill) - Show More (2)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8671
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Current location
Left hand side of A98 from Cullen
Parish Church
Seafield Street
Portsoy
Banff And Buchan
Grampian
AB45 2QB
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 58943 65960
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Figure of a kilted highland soldier in bonnet standing with head bowed and rifle revered, on pillar with a raised wreath at the bottom and surmounting a two-stepped base.
- Inscription
- TO/ THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATFEUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FORM THIS TOWN/ WHO LAID THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914-1918/ 1939-1945/ (Names)/ ADEN 1957/ (Name)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adamson, Alexander W
Angus, Hendry
Badenoch, John
Begg, William B
Bremner, William
Calder, James
Calder, Marcus
Cameron, Forbes
Cameron, Ian
Cameron, Ian
See details for all 109 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 77
Served and returned: 0
Died: 77
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, regiment
Order of information: regiment THEN surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 21
Served and returned: 0
Died: 21
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, service
Order of information: surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, service
Order of information: surname - Aden Emergency (1963-1967)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: height 5M
Materials: Granite - Creetown
- Memorial
- Condition
- Portsoy War Memorial
- WMO ID: 207413
- Condition: Good [last updated on 04-10-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 23 June 1947 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19470623/096/0006 News in Brief from the North-east PORTSOY War Memorial unveiled for a second time yesterday, with the addition of twenty-one names of men of the fighting Services and the Merchant Navy who fell in the 1939-45 war
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2834&highlight=portsoy&mforum=warmemscot
- Aberdeenshire SMR - NJ56NE0049 - PORTSOY WAR MEMORIAL online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?tab=main&refno=NJ56NE0049 Primary Reference NJ56NE0049 Name PORTSOY WAR MEMORIAL NRHE Card No. NJ56NE125Primary Reference NJ56NE0049 Name PORTSOY WAR MEMORIAL NRHE Card No. NJ56NE125
- Canmore ID 180741 canmore.org.uk/site/180741/portsoy-seafield-street-war-memorial War Memorial (20th Century) Site Name Portsoy, Seafield Street, War Memorial Classification War Memorial (20th Century) Canmore ID 180741 Site Number NJ56NE 125 NGR NJ 58940 65961 Datum OSGB36 - NGR Permalink canmore.org.uk/site/180741
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 12 November 1923 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19231112/034/0004 PORTSOY'S FALLEN. . COL. GEORGE UNVEILS MEMORIAL. From Portsoy and district 77 men paid the supreme sacrifice in the service of King and country in the Great War, and their memory was fittingly commemorated on Saturday, when a monument of a .soldier in full war dress was unveiled. The ceremony was to have been performed by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Lord-Lieutenant of the County, but owing to illness he was unable to be present, and his place was taken by Col. J. J. Grorge, Macduff, Convener of the County. (continues with detailed account and list of names)
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