Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Badenoch And Strathspey
- Town
- Aviemore
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Before May 1, 1924 (her death)
Attended by: Miss Gertrude Martineau
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 69608
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Current location
Inside
St. Andrew's Church
Grampian Road
Aviemore
Badenoch And Strathspey
Highland
PH22 1YB
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 89581 12752
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- A dark wooden board topped with two equilateral arches and detailed carvings, with lettering incised into the lower panels.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN MEMORY OF/[names on 2 side panels]/[WW2 names in central panel]/ WHO DIED/ FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY/ IN THE TWO/ WARS/ 1914 1918 - 1939 1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, William
Asher, Charles
Auchterlonie, Anderson
Balfour, Audrey
Cameron, Robert
Campbell, John
Collie, Alexander
Dunbar, George
Ferguson, William
Fraser, Duncan
See details for all 34 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 28
Served and returned: 0
Died: 28
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=9693&mforum=warmemscot
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 13 January 1926 SPEYSIDE MEMORIES Glimpses of Dr Martineau at Rothiemurchus … Miss Gertrude Martineau, who died on May 1, 1924, spent much of her time at Rothiemurchus … …. One of her last public acts was to unveil a War Memorial in oak and walnut in Andrew's Church at Aviemore — a work executed by her own carvers. … www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19260113/055/0006
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