Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Annandale And Eskdale
- Town
- Gretna
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War - civilians
- Maker
- E Taylor of Gretna (Stone Carver)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 24 July 1996
Attended by: Rt Revd JM Taylor, Bishop of Glasgow and/Galloway
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
Corner of Annan Road and Central Avenue
Annan Road
Gretna
Annandale And Eskdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG16 5DR
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NY 31801 67301
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Plain stone tablet set into side of a brick base with inscription in white lettering. See also our references 69422 and 69423 for other memorials to this incident-69422 has the names.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY/ OF ALL THOSE WHO LOST/ THEIR LIVES AS A RESULT/ OF THE/ BOMBING OF GRETNA/ 7TH APRIL 1941
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War - civilians
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Local - Base
Measurements: height 990MM, width 1168MM
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
Details: Gretna & Rigg Community Council - Responsibility
- DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY COUNCIL
- Reference
- ANNANDALE OBSERVER 12 APR 1991, PP3-5
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