
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- Ross and Cromarty
- Town
- Dingwall
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Regimental Memorials
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 12 March 1925
Attended by: General Sir Hector MacDonald - Dedicated
Date: 12 March 1925
Attended by: Revd John Dow, Chaplain to the Forces, formerly of Urray Free Church, now of Glasgow - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 57494
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Current location
Formerly Dingwall Town Hall
Dingwall Museum
High Street
Dingwall
Ross and Cromarty
Highland
IV15 9RY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 54955 58764
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Wooden triptych with the case for the Muster Book attached to it like a bible stand. The triptych is of carved oak with gilt raised lettering. The Muster Book is leather bound. Carving on central panel includes coloured and gilt badge of the regiment with motto.
- Inscription
- Central panel: 1914-1918/ ERECTED BY THE/ 4th BATTALION/ THE/ SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS/ REUNION CLUB/ IN HONOUR AND LOVING/ MEMORY OF THEIR DEAD/ UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND/ THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY. Left and right panels: (Battle honours) Muster Book: Muster Roll/ The 4th Battalion the Seaforth Highlanders/ B.E.F./ 1914-1918.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 4056
Served and returned: 2886
Died: 1170
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Regimental Memorials
Total names on memorial: 4056
Served and returned: 2886
Died: 1170
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Triptych
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood, Gilt - Book
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper, Leather
- Triptych
- Condition
- Costs
Comments: Memorial was funded by the Regimental Association. The Muster Book lists all who served with the 4th Battalion, which was a pre-1914 Territorial unit with its headquarters in Dingwall. Its men came from Rosshire.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Responsibility
- Town Council and succesor regiment
- Reference
- North Star Newspaper 14 March 1925
- Description of the Roll of Honour etc- The Scotsman - Friday 13 March 1925 - THE ROLL OF HONOUR The war memorial, which was organised by tho 4th Battalion Re-Union Club , takes the form of a handsome cabinet in dark Scottish oak, containing a magnificently designed roll of honour, which has been placed in the vestibule of Dingwall Town House, in the permanent custody of Dingwall Town Council. The roll of honour contains the names of all who served with the battalion overseas, the honours won, and the casualties sustained by officers and other ranks. The vellum pages of oblong folio demy are hand printed, and the book is bound in red pigskin , with the regimental crest and motto in silver, and sunk into the heavy front cover. A signed portrait of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, honorary Colonel-in-Chief of the Seaforth Highlanders, in field dress of the regiment forms the frontispiece. There is a holograph letter, written shortly before his death, by the late Lord Seaforth, honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion, a foreward by the Right Hon. J. Ian Macpherson, M. P., Deputy Secretary of State for War (Great War), and a dedication by the Rev. John Macleod, C. F., Free Church, Glasgow, padre of the Battalion from 1915 till the end of the war. There was also unveiled yesterday the wooden cross originally erected in the field at Fontain Notre Dame, with such material as an army in the field could most readily obtain. The ceremonial yesterday was shared in by guards of ex-Servicemen of the 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders and by various ranks of their successors, the 4/5th Seaforth Highlanders.
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