Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Dunfermline
- Town
- Culross
- County
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Maker
- Mr Jeffrey, Joppa (Architect)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 3 September 1921
Attended by: Field Marshal Sir William R Robertson Bart GCB GCMG KCVO DSO - Dedicated
Date: 3 September 1921
Attended by: Rev D H Hampton - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8511
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Current location
The memorial is located in a small railed / hedged garden.
Balgownie West
Culross
Dunfermline
Fife
KY12 8JH
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 98441 85890
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Very unusual squat plinth on three-stepped base, surmounted by three-stepped cone and conventional tapering obelisk top. Granite panels bearing inscriptions are positioned on all faces of the plinth. New name added for the Iraq War in 2009.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock face: TO/ COMMEMORATE/ OUR/ GALLANT DEAD/ WHO MADE/ THE/ SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 1918/ AT THE SETTING OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL/ REMEMBER THEM 12 o'clock face: (Names)/ 1939 - 1945/ (Names) 3 and 9 o'clock faces: (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, Andrew C
Balmain, Robert
Balmain, Walter
Bell, T
Benson, Samuel
Black, Robert
Crawford, J
Donaldson, Robert
Duffy, Archibald
Edwards, Harry
See details for all 54 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 44
Served and returned: 0
Died: 44
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, forename initials, surname, decorations
Order of information: Alphabetically - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename initials, surname
Order of information: Alphabetically - Iraq War (2003-2011)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initial of forename, rank, year of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Memorial
Measurements: depth 800 mm, height 2700 mm, width 800 mm
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Plaques
- Condition
- Culross War Memorial
- WMO ID: 139902
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 21-08-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Fife Regional Council
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?p=6196&mforum=warmemscot#6196
- The Scotsman 5 September 1921, which reports there were originally 36 names for WW1. The extra names can be seen from the images to be- T.W. KIRKUP J. CRAWFORD S. KIRKUP J.P. SNEDDON A.R. FITZSIMONS J. MADDEN A.S. RENNIE J.R.L. KERR
- Dunfermline Journal, 10 September 1921
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