
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Monklands
- Town
- Stepps
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16 Apr 1921
Attended by: Colonel Sir Alexander Sprot Baronet - Dedicated
Date: 16 Apr 1921
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 10384
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Current location
Cumbernauld Road
Stepps
Monklands
Strathclyde
G33 6HA
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 65986 68614
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Granite Celtic cross with rough edges and smooth face. Three-tiered base has inscription and names written on four sides of top two tiers, while lowest, widest section of base is made up of various smaller stones rather than hewn from a single block.
- Inscription
- ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PROUD AND/ LOVING MEMORY OF OUR/ LADS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914-1918/ 1939-1945/ (names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, Peter R
Auld, Robert D
Baird, Robert
Begg, J Marton
Black, James
Burke, Denis
Burke, Thomas
Caddick, Harold
Cant, James S
Carroll, William
See details for all 53 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 25
Served and returned: 0
Died: 25
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 28
Served and returned: 0
Died: 28
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname THEN forename
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Base
- Condition
- History
- Memorial was moved 100 yards from original location at corner of Blenheim Avenue and Cumbernauld Road when the latter was widened, c.1953-55.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2854&mforum=warmemscot
- Stepps District War Memorial Unveiling Ceremony booklet. Kirkintilloch: D. MacLeod Ltd / "Herald" office, 1921.
- Other website www.steppswarmemorials.org.uk
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