Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Nithsdale
- Town
- Keir
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 28th September 1920
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44332
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Current location
alongside WW2 memorial
Keir Village Hall
Keir
Nithsdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG3 4DE
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 85908 93077
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Not on dispay
in storage.
Penpont Church
Penpont
Nithsdale
Dumfries And Galloway
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 849 945
Denomination: Church of Scotland - Keir Church
Keir
Nithsdale
Dumfries And Galloway
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 860 932
Denomination: Church of Scotland - Show More (1)
- Not on dispay
- Description
- Brass plaque with inscription in red and black lettering
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN MEMORY OF/ THOSE WHO FELL IN THE WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ (names)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, Robert
Boyes, James Joseph
Boyes, Robert
Hartigan, James
Hyslop, Robert
Hyslop, William Douglas
Kerr, Robert
Maxwell, John
Mcallister, John
Mcallister, William
See details for all 13 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,forename, surname
Order of information: year died
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2982
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?p=81917 (for the Roll of Honour): The Dumfries and Galloway Standard of 26 April 1916 makes reference to a Christmas packet being sent 'for each soldier on the parish roll of honour'. A minute book of the Keir Women's Guild of 19 November 1916 refers to 'the 36 men on the roll of honour'. Several other newspaper articles on the Keir Parish Work Parties refer to the roll. This memorial would presumably have been in the parish church (now closed for worship and in private hands). Investigations by Gladys Cuttle have failed to discover the fate of the roll of honour.
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