Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Perth And Kinross
Town
Rattray, Blairgowrie
County
Tayside
Country
Scotland
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Ceremony
  • Unveiled
    Date: 13 May 1928
    Attended by: Rev. Thomas Tully, a former minister of the Church from 1894 until 1909 when he left to minister at Whiteinch, Glasgow.
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
82121

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Description
Brass plaque in wooden frame
Inscription
1914 RATTRAY U.F. CHURCH 1918/IN GRATEFUL/AND HONOURED MEMORY OF/THE MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH/WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/[names]/AND IN GRATITUDE/FOR THOSE WHO SERVED
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Anderson, George
Bain, A Gordon
Campbell, Alex.
Campbell, James
Duncan, Daniel
Forbes, Charles
Johnstone, Thomas
Low, Andrew
Mcfarlane, William
Paterson, Alex
See details for all 12 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 12
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 12
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname, forename, rank
    Order of information: rank THEN surname
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brass
  • Frame
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Wood
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=356&mforum=warmemscot
  • The unveiling speech- "The names inscribed on the memorial awaken many memories and conjure up many visions in my mind - memories and visions for the most part, not of men in the strength of their manhood, but of boys in the glow of their boyhood. As a matter of fact, I can visualise as adults only two of your list of twelve. The rest I can only visualise as growing lads. The hideous trawl of war got at the generation of children that grew up under my Rattray ministry. That is a point where, naturally, I feel keenly the pathos and poignancy. Sitting in my study the other night with the list of names before me I found myself wafted back to my Rattray days. It is a summer afternoon, and I have to go along to post a letter then pay a visit at the Kirkton, where the Benjamin of the family, a gentle and lovable boy with a genius for mishaps, has met with another accident - a broken arm this time. As I go out of the manse gate Alex Campbell, of course, is in evidence, laying down the law as becomes a sergeant to be, while Charlie Forbes comes down the steps across the lane. On the Smithy Brae I meet Andrew Low returning to work, and note at Adam Duncan’s door a well-knit young fellow whom I recognise as his son, Daniel, home from one of his voyages. At the Post Office little Jamie Campbell is coming out of the shop, messages in hand; and a few yards along George Anderson is standing at his grandmother’s door. Proceeding along Parkhill Road, I catch the glint of the sun on auburn locks, the owner of which is Willie M’Farlane. I pay my visit and find that mother’s boy, Tom Johnstone, enjoying his mother’s nursing, and have the pleasure of seeing the sunshine of good humour breaking through the cloud of her maternal anxiety. Already I have seen eight of your twelve within a radius of a few hundred yards from the Manse. I then take a walk over to Blairgowrie. At the top of the Boat Brae is that sweet, modest, gentle lad with his sunny smile, Gordon Bain. Coming up the brae is one of Mr Dick’s carts, with Alex Paterson proudly perched in front beside his father. On the bridge I exchange greetings with kindly Mrs Petrie, who is accompanied by her sturdy boy, David. There remains only one of your twelve - Sergt. Peter Stewart. I seem to find him more easily in reminiscences of his aunt’s conversation than in any distinct facial memory".

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