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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Wigtown
- Town
- Drummore
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44436
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Current location
St Medans Church
Stair Street
Drummore
Wigtown
Dumfries And Galloway
DG9 9PS
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 13472 36705
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Previous locations
- Also known as Kirk Covenant
Kirkmaiden Parisk Kirk
about 4 miles south of Drummore beyond the end of the B7041
Kirkmaiden
Wigtown
Dumfries And Galloway
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 134 367
Denomination: Undefined
- Also known as Kirk Covenant
- Description
- Celtic style cross on square plinth and double stepped base
- Inscription
- AUT VINCERE AUT MORI/ ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS, TO THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ballantyre, Alexander
Blackwell, David
Braid, James
Chalmers, William
Chalmers, William
Chambers, Alexander
Cochrane, Alexander
Conlan, Thomas Ramsay
Cunningham, John
Eccles, James
See details for all 36 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 29
Served and returned: 0
Died: 29
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,regiment,forename
Order of information: regiment - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Red - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Red
- Plaque
- Condition
- Parish of Kirkmaiden
- WMO ID: 182635
- Condition: Good [last updated on 13-05-2020]
- 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=1901
- Stranraer & Wigtownshire Free Press 10 Nov 2011 for the adding of Carr Simpson (WW1) to the memorial
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