Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Perth And Kinross
- Town
- Milnathort
- County
- Tayside
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians, VC or GC Recipients
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 20 November 1921
Attended by: Lieutenant General SIR FRANCIS J DAVIES KCB, KCMG, KCVO - Rededicated
Date: 7 June 2014
Attended by: Reverend Duncan Stenhouse of Orwell Parish Church - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8543
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Current location
Adjacent to the A922
Orwell Parish (Milnathort) Memorial
South Street
Milnathort
Perth And Kinross
Tayside
KY13 9XB
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NO 11953 04555
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Believed to be Doddington pink granite, from Northumberland, freestanding obelisk surmounted by a ball with a flame finial -perhaps an exploding grenade. WW1 inscription, in raised bronze, on front face above three rectangular bronze plaques of WW1 casualties in reliefs. WW2 inscription above two rectangular bronze plaques with names in relief.
- Inscription
- On the stonework-IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE OF THE/ MEN FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ (Names on 3 plaques)/ On the stonework- AND OF THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE 1939-1945 WAR/ (Names on 2 plaques)
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Names on memorial
- Air, Thomas
Archibald, James
Balfour, Andrew
Beaton, George Tait
Black, Stewart B
Blyth, William
Bowie, William
Brough, Colin D
Bruce, William
Brunton, John
See details for all 65 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 43
Served and returned: 0
Died: 43
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Regiment, rank, forename, surname, decorations
Order of information: Surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forenames, surname, service, decorations
Order of information: surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forenames, surname, service
Order of information: Undefined - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, regiment, decoration
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: depth 6000 mm, height 6100 mm, width 6000mm
Materials: Granite - First World War memorial
Measurements: height 525, width 330
Materials: Bronze - Second World War memorial
Measurements: height 350, width 610
Materials: Bronze
- Obelisk
- Condition
- ORWELL WAR MEMORIAL
- WMO ID: 130759
- Condition: Good [last updated on 24-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- July 2013. £13,000 project of refurbishment and cleaning the plaques. Days after completion, the two WW2 plaques and one WW1 plaque were stolen, and another WW1 plaque damaged. The stolen plaques were later recovered from a scrapyard in Fife, but two had to be remade. In August 2015 the thief (whose grandfather was one of those named on the plaques) was jailed for a year in June 1997.
- Costs
Site: Donated by Mr L S Donaldson
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Perth and Kinross Council.
- Reference
- BBC News Online 23518670;23532147;23554879;23580852. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-
- www.facebook.com/MilnathortWarMemorial
- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/130759
- Scottish War Memorials Project warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic1680.html
- Perthshire Advertiser 28 May 2013 (online) Work has begun to restore the memorial, with funding from vaarious sources including WMT.
- www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/it-is-absolutely-sickening-milnathort-war-memorial
- Dunfermline Press 26 Nov. 1921
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