Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Memorial homes / Alms houses
- District
- Nithsdale
- Town
- Dumfries
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 18th October 1954
Attended by: Duke of Buccleuch - Presented
Date: Undefined
Attended by: Sir Alexander B. King, C.B.E., D.L., J.P. and Lyceum Cinema - Dedicated
Date: 18th October 1954
Attended by: Rev. Harold A Cockburn, Minister of St. Michael's Church. - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 71627
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Current location
Lyceum Cottages
Glencaple Road
Dumfries
Nithsdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG1 4AS
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 977 747
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- 6 Cottages with slate dedication plaque
- Inscription
- THE SCOTTISH VETERANS/GARDEN CITY ASSOCIATION/THESE COTTAGES/FOR DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN/WERE DONATED BY/THE LYCEUM CINEMA, DUMFRIES/AND SIR ALEXANDER B KING CBE DL JP/1914-18 1939-45/"TO CARE FOR HIM WHO SHALL HAVE BORNE THIS BATTLE"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
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)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate - Building
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Edinburgh Evening News - Tuesday 19 October 1954 PLAQUE UNVEILED AT DUMFRIES HOUSES A memorial plaque at four cottages erected at Glencaple Road, Dumfries for disabled ex-Servicemen was unveil yesterday by the Duke of Bucleuch. The cottages have been presented by the Scottish Veterans' Garden City Association, the trustees of the Lyceum Cinema .....
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1007
- www.housesforheroes.org.uk/about-us/#.WFo4Glz1nIU (This charity is now called Houses for Heroes Scotland and is very much still functioning)
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