
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Avenue / Tree or grove
- District
- Inverness
- Town
- Inverness
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Planted
Date: 25/02/2011
Attended by: former Inverness Baillie John Stewart MacLennan
- Planted
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
Facing Island Bank Road
Cavell Gardens
Island Bank Road
Inverness
Inverness
Highland
IV2 4SY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 66516 44499
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Oak tree grown from an oak collected in 2007 from near the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme, with an accompanying plaque mounted on a low steel stand. The plaque was originally in machine-cut brass, but this has been replaced at some time by an incised wooden plaque behind a perspex sheet.
- Inscription
- This French Oak was planted on the 25th February 2011 / by former Inverness Baillie John Stewart MacLennan, / with assistance from his son Niall and grandson / Fionniagh MacGill-Fhinnein along with Provost / Jimmy Gray, City of Inverness. The acorn from which / the tree has grown was collected from the / Thiepval Memorial in France, by his son Roddie / in October 2007. It is planted in memory of Mr MacLennan's grandfather / John, who was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917; / and to celebrate the endurance of Highland people / during times of adversity, across the centuries. Mairidh cuimhne air euchdnan treun / The deeds of the brave shall be remembered.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Maclennan, John
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: Relationships, family name, forename, place and year of death.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tree
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood, Steel - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown
- Tree
- Condition
- John MacLennan
- WMO ID: 260767
- Condition: Good [last updated on 08-11-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- The Highland Council
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