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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Fountain
- District
- Moray
- Town
- Edinkillie
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
- Maker
- Mr A C Anderson (Builder)
J & H W Wittet of Elgin (Architect)
Mr J R Anderson (Builder) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: October 1921
Attended by: Unknown - Dedicated
Date: 6 June 1948
Attended by: Reverend L Beattie Garden - Unveiled
Date: 6 June 1948
Attended by: Major Robert Bruce Glenernie - Dedicated
Date: October 1921
Attended by: Unknown - Show More (3)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8542
Current location
Beside A940 / Forres - Grantown-on-Spey Road in public car park by the church.
Edinkillie Parish Church
A940
Edinkillie
Moray
Grampian
IV36 2QH
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 01979 4659
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Previous locations
- Edinkillie
Moray
Grampian
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Edinkillie
- Description
- Memorial in the shape of a large fireplace with two columns supporting a convex top. Three tablets set into the central niche with WW1 names in the centre and WW2 names to the right. The tablet on the left has been left blank. Dedicatory tablet set on the base. Incised gilded inscription. In front of the tablets is a drinking fountain.
- Inscription
- Top: 1914 - 1919 Upper middle tablet: (Names) Upper right tablet: 1939-1945 / (Names) Lower tablet: ERECTED / IN MEMORY OF / THE MEMBERS OF THE PARISH OF EDINKILLIE / WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WARS.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allan, William
Anderson, James F
Bruce, Robert
Calder, Andrew
Calder, Donald
Calder, George M
Calder, George Macbeth
Calder, William
Campbell, Thomas
Clark, Duncan
See details for all 43 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 35
Served and returned: 0
Died: 35
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forenames, surname, address.
Order of information: Alphabetical by surname. - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forenames, surname, address.
Order of information: Alphabetical by surname. - Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forenames, surname, address.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Black - Memorial
Measurements: depth 1600mm, height 2800mm, width 2900mm
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Plaques
- Condition
- Edinkille
- WMO ID: 256841
- Condition: Good [last updated on 13-03-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Moray Council
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=3068&mforum=warmemscot
- Moray SMR - NJ04NW0020 - EDINKILLIE PARISH CHURCH online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?Authority=MOR&refno=NJ04NW0020 A rough hewn stone built structure, containing a recess flanked by columns, the shelf holding a stone basin, and the inner faces of the recess comprising plaques listing the names of those killed. Unveiled in 1921 by Lt Col. The Hon. Robert Bruce. Moved to present location in 1989 from the A940 and Estate Access Road junction due to road widening.
- Canmore ID 271342 canmore.org.uk/site/271342/edinkillie-parish-church-churchyard Edinkillie Parish Church, Churchyard
- "New Site for the War memorial." Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gazette, 1 November 1989, p.7. Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gazette is now known as the Forres Gazette. Historical copies of this newspaper can be viewed in the Local History Department of Elgin Public Library.
- "Edinkillie's Tribute to War Dead." Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gazette, 9 June 1948. Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gazette is now known as the Forres Gazette. Historical copies of this newspaper can be viewed in the Local History Department of Elgin Public Library.
- "Edinkillie - War memorial." Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gazette, 27 August 1919. Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gazette is now known as the Forres Gazette. Historical copies of this newspaper can be viewed in the Local History Department of Elgin Public Library.
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