Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Nithsdale
- Town
- Penpont
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- MR KELLOCK BROWNE (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 27 March 1921
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8729
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Current location
Main Street
Penpont
Nithsdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG3 4BJ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 84811 94633
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Helmeted soldier in mourning pose with head bowed and reversed rifle. Wearing puttees not the kilt. Mounted on granite base
- Inscription
- THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ 1914 - 1919/ (Names)/ 1939 - 1945/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allan, John
Beck, Alexander
Beck, Alexander
Bell, William
Blackley, John
Brown, John
Burns, William S
Carmichael, Gilbert
Carmichael, William
Carruthers, William
See details for all 50 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 41
Served and returned: 0
Died: 41
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Sculpture
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Whinstone
- Sculpture
- Condition
- Penpont
- WMO ID: 149764
- Condition: Good [last updated on 11-02-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=756
- History of Penpont War Memorial-book by Gladys Cuttle, published 2009, out of print since 2010- available locally
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