
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Ross And Cromarty
- Town
- Dingwall
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), VC or GC Recipients
- Maker
- MR KELLOCK BROWN RAC (Sculptor)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 63890
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Current location
Dingwall Museum
High Street
Dingwall
Ross And Cromarty
Highland
IV15 9RY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 54955 58764
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Later became Levern Primary School
Levern Public School
Glasgow
Glasgow
Strathclyde
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Nitshill Public Hall
Priesthill Road
Nitshill
Glasgow
Strathclyde
G53 7AF
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 517 608
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Later became Levern Primary School
- Description
- Plaque with a portrait of Meikle in Army uniform, with laurels at the base. Upper left side are overlapping VC letters with the number 19 below; and to the upper right is a VC Cross and the number 18 below. The inscription is below this. All images and inscription are cast in relief.
- Inscription
- TO THE MEMORY OF/ SERGT JOHN MEIKLE VC MM/ 4th BATN SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS/ KILLED IN ACTION 20 JULY 1918/ AWARDED VC FOR MOST/ CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Meikle, John
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, forename, decorations
Order of information: Undefined - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, forename, decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 750mm, width 380mm
Materials: Bronze
- Plaque
- Condition
- Costs
Comments: Sponsored by Perry & Hope Ltd, Nitshill, Glasgow
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- Dingwall Museum
- Reference
- Local Publication/Booklet 1992 Portrait of a Soldier, local studies no4. Dingwall Museum Trust
- Other website www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/member/dingwall-museum
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