Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Hamilton
- Town
- Stonehouse
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- DR P MCGREGOR-CHALMERS LLD (Architect)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: June 1921
Attended by: - Rededicated
Date: 8 November 2008 - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6007
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Current location
Stonehouse Cemetery
Stonehouse
Hamilton
Strathclyde
ML9 3NX
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 74725 46821
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Martyr's Cross on a 4 stage base
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allan, George
Alston, Hugh
Ashley, Jack
Barr, James
Barr, William
Bennett, James
Black, Gavin
Brown, Archibald
Brown, James
Brown, John
See details for all 110 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 88
Served and returned: 0
Died: 88
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, decorations
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: 0
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, decorations
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Cross
- Condition
- Stonehouse
- WMO ID: 148579
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 20-01-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- c. 2008 Stonehouse Heritage Group received £3000 to clean and re-letter the memorial and add 28 names which were discovered as not listed (24 WW1 and 4 WW2)
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=589&mforum=warmemscot
- There is a further, WW2 Civilian casualty- on a gravestone which reads- In/Loving Memory/of/EDWARD MCMILLAN/WHO WAS KILLED/BY ENEMY ACTION/AT DALMUIR/ON 14TH MARCH 1941/AGED 15 YEARS [CWGC shows that he died at 7 Pattison Street, the son of David and Elizabeth, and has his death as 13 March]
- Hamilton Advertiser 18 June 1921- unveiling report
- The names added in 2008 were- WW1. Barr James Brown Archibald Brown James Callander John Crouch Thomas Craig William Davidson Alexander Feelie Robert Gray John Scott Hamilton Andrew Hamilton James Hamilton James Lawrie Hamilton William Hamilton William Weir Harvie Robert McCallum Alexander McConville Patrick Paterson Robert Reid John Richardson J Robinson Thomas Small James Smith Frank Todd James . WW2. Hughes John G L Mathies Archibald Todd Archibald Todd John.
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