Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Dundee
- Town
- Dundee
- County
- Tayside
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Scott Sutherland ARSA (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: C1959
Attended by: HM QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER, Honorary Colonel in Chief of the Black Watch Regiment - Rededicated
Date: 18 October 2009
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 62105
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Current location
Stands watching over the east side of the A90. Can be accessed on Emmock Road
Powrie Brae
Emmock Road
Dundee
Dundee
Tayside
DD4 9RA
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NO 41690 34500
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Figure of kilted soldier in battledress blouse and tam o'shanter standing at ease on plinth. Inscription in relief on plaque.
- Inscription
- 1939 1945/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ALL RANKS OF THE/ 4TH AND 5TH/ DUNDEE & ANGUS/ BATTALIONS OF/ THE BLACK WATCH/ WHO DIED IN THE/ SECOND WORLD/ WAR
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adair, Robert
Adair, Samuel
Adair, William
Agnew, Samuel
Ahara, Matthew
Ahara, Samuel
Bagshaw, James
Bailie, Francis M
Best, George
Boal, George
See details for all 85 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Figure
- Condition
- Dundee Black Watch WWII
- WMO ID: 136224
- Condition: Good [last updated on 19-11-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- c 2009: stonework repaired and statue cleaned and rewaxed at a cost of £12,000.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Dundee City Council
- Reference
- The Times c 19 October 2009 Court Circular recording attendance of Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay at rededication on 18 October 2009
- Scottish War Memorials Project warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic307.html&highlight=dundee+black+watch
- War Memorials Trust Bulletin No.58 (Aug. 2013) pp.1,5,12 Published:War Memorials Trust London Visit of HRH the Duchess of Rothesay to the memorial on 11 June 2013.
- Other website Dundee City Council www.dundeecity.gov.uk/memorials/
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