Memorial details

Memorial type
Cross
District
Kyle And Carrick
Town
Ayr
County
Strathclyde
Country
Scotland
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Ceremony
  • Unveiled
    Date: After April 1921
    Attended by:
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
56976

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Current location

Ayr Cemetery
Holmston Road
Ayr
Kyle And Carrick
Strathclyde
KA7 3BE
Scotland

OS Grid Ref: NS 34821 21036
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
Round step base, surmounted by celtic cross. Bronze badge of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment mounted at the centre of the cross, also a granite slab stone of remembrance to men of the regiment buried at Ardersier, Edinburgh (Mount Vernon), Paisley (Hawkhead), Largs, Sannox (Isle of Arran), Glasgow (Cathcart & Western Cemeteries), Dunkeld and Kenmore (by Aberfeldy)
Inscription
Base of Pedestal of Cross- 'SIMPLE SERVICE, SIMPLY GIVEN / TO HIS OWN KIND IN THEIR COMMON NEED' / KIPLING Granite Slab- NEWFOUNDLAND CONTINGENT / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE MEN OF THE / NEWFOUNDLAND CONTINGENT / WHO LIE BURIED ELSEWHERE / IN SCOTLAND VIZ / [names] / THIS STONE IS DEDICATED BY / THEIR COMRADES IN ARMS / 'HAEC TIBI DONA HERO'
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Boland, P J
Chaplin, J F
Dick, G
Ford, J
Gorman, J J
Hogan, G
Hunt, C J
Maddock, W
Mugford, G
Taylor, S
See details for all 12 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 12
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 12
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank, regiment, date of death, service number, place of burial
    Order of information: date of death
Components
  • Cross
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Stone
  • Detail
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Bronze
  • Stone of remembrance
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Granite
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic1206.html
  • Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 01 June 1925 -Newfoundlanders In Scotland. -The British Legion Scotland has now monthly magazine of its own giving full information about the Scottish Branches and about British enterprise throughout the Empire. An interesting account is given in the current i«sue of this magazine of the Newfoundlanders in Scotland. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment and the Newfoundland Forestry Corps came to Scotland, and many Newfoundlanders served in the Royal Navy. During tho winter of 1915-16 and summer of 1917 H Company of the Royal Regiment was in camp at Barry. The city of Dundee, Broughty Ferry, Monifieth. and Carnoustie became familiar to the Newfoundlanders, and they have not forgotten their welcome "oor ain folk." In a recent issue of The Veteran, organ of the Newfoundland ex-service men, made to the happy memories of Edinburgh, Ayr, and of Saturday nights in Dundee.
  • Army and Navy Gazette - Saturday 09 April 1921 -Permission was granted at Ayr Sheriff’s Court last week for the disinterment the bodies of 14 men of the Newfoundland Regiment who died on service and are buried in the local cemetery. They will reburied in another part of the cemetery, when a memorial will be erected by the Newfoundland Government.
  • The Scotsman - Friday 01 April 1921 - NEWFOUNDLAND SOLDIERS' GRAVES IN AYR CEMETERY — : Ayr was the headquarters of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the greater part of the war, and fourteen men who died on service lie in Ayr Cemetery. Yesterday Sheriff-Substitute Broun granted the necessary permission to Lieut .-Colonel Thomas Nangle, acting for the Government of Newfoundland. 58 Victoria Street, London, to have the bodies dis-interred for the purpose of reburial in another portion of . the cemetery. The intention is to concentrate the graves in the cemetery as much as possible, so that they may be more easily looked after, and for-the purpose of erecting a memorial. The area where the remains will find a final resting-place forms a corner plot, and is sufficient to provide the lairs required.

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