Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Cunninghame
- Town
- Ardrossan
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), VC or GC Recipients
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 29 May 1922
Attended by: Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston KCB, DSO, MP - Rededicated
Date: 8 April 1949
Attended by: Revd T K Potts - Unveiled
Date: 8 Apr 1949
Attended by: Rt Hon The Earl of Eglinton - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 76559
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Current location
Ardrossan Academy
Sorbie Road
Ardrossan
Cunninghame
Strathclyde
KA22 8AR
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Ardrossan Academy
South Crescent
Ardrossan
Cunninghame
Strathclyde
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Ardrossan Academy
- Description
- Copper Plaque on an oak backboard. The WW2 names are added on to the two sides of the memorial with WW1 names at centre. A 1922 newspaper report indicates the original WW1 memorial may have been bronze on marble. So it looks as if the memorial may have been remade in 1949 to cover both conflicts, rather than just make a separate WW2 plaque. Currently the full history is not known, to be able to confirm that scenario. See also our references 458 and 69026 for other memorials which include Kenneth Campbell VC at Sedbergh School, Cumbria: his education after Ardrossan before he went to Cambridge University.
- Inscription
- 1914 1918/IN MEMORY OF THOSE/OF THE ACADEMY/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/IN THE GREAT WAR/[names in 2 columns]/THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE Left Hand Side Column-ALSO IN THE/1939/[names] Right Hand Side Column-WORLD WAR/1945/[names]/"THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adam, William G
Adams, William G
Adamson, George A
Adamson, Robert T
Aird, Alexander S
Alexander, Archd. C E
Aliston, John
Allan, James
Armour, Andrew B
Barr, Ralph A W
See details for all 120 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 54
Served and returned: 0
Died: 54
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 66
Served and returned: 0
Died: 66
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Copper - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Green
- Plaque
- Condition
- Ardrossan Academy WW1+2
- WMO ID: 259498
- Condition: Good [last updated on 26-08-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Photographs-warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=5772&mforum=warmemscot
- The Scotsman - Tuesday 30 May 1922 WAR MEMORIALS ARDROSSAN. — A war memorial , consisting of a bronze tablet on green marble, with the names inscribed upon it of fifty-four former pupils of Ardrossan Academy who fell in the war was unveiled in the Academy by Lt. - Gen. Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, M. P. Mr J. W. Butters, the rector presided. and the ceremony was attended by the pupils, and many of the general public. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19220530/233/0006
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