Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cairn
- District
- Moray
- Town
- Pluscarden
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 27 March 1920
Attended by: Mrs. P.C. Oswald of Wester Elchies
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 76650
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Current location
To the right of the entrance gate to the churchyard - see picture
Parish of Birnie and Pluscarden Church
Unnamed road
Pluscarden
Moray
Grampian
IV30 3UA
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 14902 57291
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Rustic cairn of large roughly hewn boulders. The commemoration and names of the dead are listed in gold lettering on a black marble tablet set into the front. There is also a simple plaque on the wall at the side of the path to the church (WMR reference: 78567)
- Inscription
- THIS CAIRN WAS ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE / OF PLUSCARDEN IN APPRECIATIVE AND / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING / MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO WERE / KILLED IN THE EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919 / (Names) / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A / MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Chisholm, Peter A.
Chisholm, William F.
Garden, James
Grant, John A.
Kay, James
Kynoch, William
Munro, James
Ogilvie, Alexander
Petrie, Frank
Phimister, Eric
See details for all 11 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, decorations, regiment
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cairn
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Cairn
- Condition
- Pluscarden Cairn
- WMO ID: 259594
- Condition: Good [last updated on 05-09-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1881&mforum=warmemscot
- The Northern Scot 25 December 1921
- livesofthefirstworldwar.org/community/7376
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