Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Stewartry
- Town
- Castle Douglas
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Mr Ewart of Dalbeattie (Artist)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1 Jan 1919
Attended by: Provost Wallace
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 71832
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Current location
In the non-public area of the sorting office
behind the post office counters
100
Post Office
King Street
Castle Douglas
Stewartry
Dumfries And Galloway
DG7 1LU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 76482 62418
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Roll of honour in calligraphy, executed in water colour paint and gold, with a border of forget-me-nots and corners of Scottish blue bells.
- Inscription
- ROLL OF HONOUR/1914-1918/Castle Douglas & District/Post Office Staffs/[names in 2 columns-Castle Douglas in Column 1, outlying offices in column 2]/R Badger/Postmaster
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bendall, J
Black, J
Brown, J
Candlish, A G
Carter, J
Cheyne, D
Clark, R J
Colvin, T
Corson, A
Cummings, R
See details for all 39 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 38
Served and returned: 28
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, regiment, decorations, additional
Order of information: additional THEN surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper, Paint - Watercolour, Wood, Glass
- Roll of honour
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Dumfries and Galloway Courier and Herald 4 Jan 1919
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=4826
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