Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Kirkcaldy
- Town
- Auchterderran
- County
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 8 April 1922
Attended by: Mrs Graham (who lost a son and two sons respectively in the war) - Dedicated
Date: 8 April 1922
Attended by: REV A MCNEILL HOUSTON - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 5714
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Current location
B921
Auchterderran
Kirkcaldy
Fife
KY5 0NG
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 21410 96000
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Square monument on two massive steps. Moulded base supports four panels, at corners of which are moulded columns. Whole surmounted by ornate cross. 3 figures on front face (east) representing Army, Navy and Air Force
- Inscription
- Beneath the three figures: THEIR NAME LIVETH/FOR EVERMORE The main dedication: IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/THE MEN OF THIS DISTRICT/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/AND OF THOSE WHO FELL/IN THE 1939-1945 WAR
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbott, Wm
Adam, Peter
Adam, Peter
Allison, John
Anderson, Alex
Anderson, David
Anderson, James
Anderson, Thos
Anderson, Wm
Anderson, Wm
See details for all 243 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 198
Served and returned: 0
Died: 198
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, regiment, forename
Order of information: regiment THEN surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 49
Served and returned: 0
Died: 49
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, regiment, forename
Order of information: regiment THEN surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, service
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: depth 3.65M, height 7.3M, width 3.65M
Materials: Stone
- Memorial
- Condition
- Auchterderran
- WMO ID: 204813
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 23-02-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Site: £1200
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- FIFE REGIONAL COUNCIL
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2793&mforum=warmemscot
- Carter Postcard Collection
- AUCHTERDERRAN PARISH – This memorial, erected by Mr Murdoch, sculptor, Kirkcaldy, on the glebe at Auchterderran, Fife, was unveiled by Mrs Goodall, Cardenbank; and Mrs Graham (who lost a son and two sons respectively in the war), and dedicated by the parish minister, the Rev. A. M’Neill Houston, who gave the site. He read a list of 190 names of men from the parish who paid the supreme sacrifice. Addresses were given by Mr Adamson, M.P., for Fife; and Mr Chas. Carlow, J.P., chairman of the Fife Coal Company. Many beautiful wreaths from the Fife Coal Company, the Women’s Guild of the Parish Church, and other friends and bereaved relatives were placed on the Cenotaph at the close of the ceremony. Several thousand parishioners attended, and all local bodies were represented on the platform, under the chairmanship of Mr W. Reid, miner, president of the War Memorial Committee. The chairman of the Parish Council accepted custody of the memorial for that body. The Scotsman, Wednesday, 12 April 1922, 12.
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