Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Dunfermline
- Town
- North Queensferry
- County
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War - civilians, Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 19 June 1921
Attended by: Field Marshal Sir William R Robertson Bart GCB GCMG KCVO DSO, Lord Lieutenant of Fife - Dedicated
Date: November 1949
Attended by: Rev R S Bishop BD - Unveiled
Date: November 1949
Attended by: Lieutenant-Colonel Napier (President of the local British Legion) - Dedicated
Date: 19 June 1921
Attended by: Rev R H Fraser MA - Show More (3)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8514
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Current location
Bottom of Ferryhill Road
junction with Main Road
North Queensferry
Dunfermline
Fife
KY11 1LB
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 13136 80546
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Obelisk mounted on a plinth and two stepped base with a Latin cross positioned at top, front face of obelisk. Bronze inscription and plaque bearing names of those lost in the First World War positioned on the bottom half of obelisk. Plaque dedicated to the Second World War positioned on front face of plinth.
- Inscription
- 1914 - 1918/ IN MEMORY OF/ (Names)/ WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1939 - 1945/ IN MEMORY OF/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aikman, Wilfred
Anderson, Andrew
Anderson, William F
Bald, Robert
Bedell-sivright, David R
Campbell, John
Carmichael, David
Clark, John
Coutts, Albert J
Cram, William A
See details for all 38 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 28
Served and returned: 0
Died: 28
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname
Order of information: Rank, surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, service
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forenames, surname, regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Whinstone - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Whinstone - Obelisk
Measurements: depth 1000 mm, height 4000 mm, width 1000 mm
Materials: Stone - Whinstone
- Plaques
- Condition
- North Queensferry War Memorial
- WMO ID: 133888
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 10-02-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Bronze panels beginning to corrode.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Fife Regional Council
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=734&mforum=warmemscot
- Dunfermline Press, 25 June 1921; Dunfermline Journal, 9 November 1949
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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