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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Dunfermline
- Town
- Dunfermline
- County
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Rededicated
Date: 23 June 2017
Attended by:
- Rededicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 72517
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Current location
Delivery Office
Woodmill Road
Dunfermline
Dunfermline
Fife
KY12 7AD
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 09851 87105
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Wall of public counter
42-44
Post Office
Queen Anne Street
Dunfermline
Dunfermline
Fife
KY12 7AA
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 09135 87553
Denomination: Undefined
- Wall of public counter
- Description
- Dome Headed Brass Plaque on wooden backboard which echoes its shape. The lettering is inscribed in black, the GPO insignia is inscribed at top centre, and a picture of 'Britannia' is inscribed on the left hand side
- Inscription
- DUNFERMLINE POSTAL DISTRICT/ERECTED IN HONOUR OF OUR/COMRADES WHO SACRIFICED THEIR/LIVES IN THE WAR 1914-1919/[names]/1939 [names] 1945/THEY DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, John
Clark, David
Davidson, William
Duncan, John
Foote, James Eskine
Gilchrist, Arthur
Grant, Charles Robertson
Hastie, John Hamilton
Hurst, Frank Leslie
Leitch, John
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, regiment
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, regiment
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Royal Mail
- Reference
- catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_Mem237
- Dunfermline Press 23 July 2017
- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/242694/
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