
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Allegory (eg: Victory)
- District
- Clydebank
- Town
- Clydebank
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 07 June 1931
Attended by: LORD LIEUTENANT OF DUNBARTONSHIRE - Unveiled
Date: 08 November 2009
Attended by: UNKNOWN - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44686
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Current location
Town Hall located on Dumbarton Road and Hall Street
Clydebank Town Hall.
Hall Street
Clydebank
Clydebank
Strathclyde
G81 1UA
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 49544 70160
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Robed female figure symbolising peace, holding in her left hand a Greek lamp, from the centre of which issues a little love which fills the heart of man. With her right hand she shelters love. Figure is gilded and set in a floodlit marble lined recess in the external wall of the Town Hall. Also a clock and carillon of bells in the municipal tower. Tablets with WW1 and WW2 names are either side of the figure. Recess flanked by pilasters. Engraved palm leaves above recess.
- Inscription
- Left: (Names) Middle: THE/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ 1914 1918/ 1939 - 1945/ THIS SHRINE/ WITH THE/ CLOCK AND CHIMES/ DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE/ MEN OF CLYDEBANK/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WARS/ NON OMNIS MORIAR Right: (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: height 2134
Materials: Bronze - Pedestal
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black - Wall
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Heworth Burnstone - Bells
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined - Clock
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Figure
- Condition
- History
- 2009: Black marble tablets with WW1 and WW2 names installed either side of the female figure.
- Costs
Memorial: c £2000
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL
- Reference
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