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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Clackmannan
- Town
- Alloa
- County
- Central
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Maker
- MR WILLIAM BIRNIE RHIND RSA (Sculptor)
SIR ROBERT LORIMER (Architect) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 9 April 1904
Attended by: The Earl of Mar and Kellie- LORD LIEUTENANT OF CLACKMANNAN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44743
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Current location
On the north side of the junction between Ludgate and Claremont-comprises a public open space with shrub margins
grassed areas and wide footpaths. stands off centre towards the north of the site
Top of Mar Street
Alloa
Clackmannan
Central
FK10 2DD
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 88308 93053
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- An ashlar square stone pedestal with carved coat of arms and inscription on a convex south face. The remaining three upper pedestal faces have relief panels with moulded edges with the north facing panel containing a bronze plaque. There is a moulded pediment to the upper edge of the pedestal. The stone statue depicts a soldier of the Argyll & Southerland Highlanders standing protectively over a wounded comrade
- Inscription
- IN MEMORIAM SOUTH AFRICA 1899 - 1902/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Hastings, John W
Hunter, R H Alston
Johnstone, Robert C
Lynn, Frank
Mcgregor, David
Miller, William W W A
Paton, Harold Percival
Stirling, David H
Watt, Robert
Wright, John
See details for all 11 names - Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, regiment, forenames, manner of death
Order of information: manner of death THEN rank THEN surname
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Pedestal
Measurements: height 3600mm
Materials: Stone - Freestone - Figure
Measurements: height 2550mm
Materials: Stone - Freestone - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Pedestal
- Condition
- MEN OF CLACKMANNAN - BOER WAR
- WMO ID: 151252
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 20-08-2018]
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- Costs
Comments: £300 had been subscribed by the unveiling- the balance to be met by two "generous donors in town"
Memorial: £450- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=51&mforum=warmemscot [includes an archive view which is interesting in its own right, as the memorial hasn't moved, but the streetscape is vastly different]
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James 278 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
- www.roll-of-honour.com/Clackmannanshire/AlloaBoer.html
- Dundee Courier 11 April 1904- unveiling
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