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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Caithness
- Town
- Latheron
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians, Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 13th October 1922
Attended by: Sir Archibald H. M. Sinclair, Bart. of Ulbster, Lord Lieutenant of Caithness.
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 5951
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Current location
at entrance to cemetery car park
A99
Latheron
Caithness
Highland
KW5 6DN
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: ND 20137 33474
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Granite figure of a Seaforth Highlander at the guard, on a tapered granite plinth atop two steps
- Inscription
- Front Face-TO/THE GLORY OF GOD/AND/IN EVERLASTING MEMORY/OF/THE MEN OF/FORSE, LATHERON AND LATHERONWHEEL/WHO FELL IN THE WAR/1914-1919/[names] Back Face-ALSO OF THOSE/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/1939-1945/[names]/[name]/KILLED MALAYA 17 FEB 1952
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Names on memorial
- Baird, C E
Budge, David
Campbell, D
Campbell, George
Campbell, George
Campbell, James
Campbell, Peter
Cormack, Francis S
Dunbar, Alexander
Dunbar, B
See details for all 40 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 29
Served and returned: 0
Died: 29
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, regiment, forenames, home village
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initial of forename, rank, regiment, manner of death
Order of information: surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initial of forename, manner of death
Order of information: Undefined - Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initial of forename, rank, regiment, year of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Aberdeen - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Aberdeen - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Aberdeen - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Aberdeen
- Figure
- Condition
- Forse, Latheron and Latheronwheel War Memorial
- WMO ID: 178380
- Condition: Good [last updated on 01-05-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=200&mforum=warmemscot
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 14 October 1922 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19221014/003/0002 CHERISHED IDEALS SIR A.H.M. SINCLAIR'S TRIBUTE TO CAITHNESS HEROES
- The Scotsman - Saturday 14 October 1922 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19221014/038/0010 LATHERON'S FIFTH MEMORIAL.
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