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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Nairn
- Town
- Nairn
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians, Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), Korean War (1950-1953), Aden Emergency (1963-1967), Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998), Gulf War (1990-1991), Afghanistan (2001-2014)
- Maker
- Messers A Marshall MacKenzie & Son (Architect)
Mr D Ross Forres (Sculptor)
Mr Walter Simpson (Founder / Foundry) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 15 January 1922
Attended by: Brodie of Brodie DSO; MC
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8721
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Current location
Memorial Garden
junction of Cawdor Street and Millbank Crescent
Nairn
Nairn
Highland
IV12 4QD
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 88212 56194
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Corinthian Pillar with fluted shaft and carved capital, and a wreath of laurel leaves, on a triangular plinth with a total of 7 Bronze Plaques- 3 for WW1, 2 for WW2, and 2 for post 1945 conflicts
- Inscription
- Plaque 1-+/1914-1918/THEIR NAME LIVETH/FOR EVERMORE/BURGH AND PARISH OF NAIRN/(NAMES) Plaque 2- BURGH AND PARISH OF NAIRN/(NAMES) Plaque 3-PARISH OF ARDCLACH/(NAMES)/PARISH OF AULDEARN/(NAMES)]/PARISH OF CAWDOR/[names in 2 columns]/PARISH OF CROY/(NAMES) Plaque 4-1939-1945/BURGH AND PARISH OF NAIRN/(NAMES) Plaque 5-POST 1945/[names for Malaya, Korea, Aden & Northern Ireland] Plaque 6-1939-1945/PARISH OF ARDCLACH/(NAMES)/PARISH OF AULDEARN/[names]/PARISH OF CAWDOR/(NAMES)/PARISH OF CROY/(NAMES) Plaque 7- POST 1945/[names for Gulf & Afghanistan Wars]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adam, James
Adamson, James H
Alexander, James J
Allan, A
Allan, Frank
Allan, James
Allan, William
Anderson, James
Anderson, John James
Arnott, Albert J
See details for all 424 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 305
Served and returned: 0
Died: 305
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, regiment, forenames, home parish, decorations
Order of information: home parish - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 103
Served and returned: 0
Died: 103
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, regiment, forenames, decorations, home parish
Order of information: home parish - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, service
Order of information: home Parish - Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, regiment, forename, surname, year of death, place of death
Order of information: Undefined - Korean War (1950-1953)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, regiment, forenames, surname, year of death, place of death
Order of information: Undefined - Aden Emergency (1963-1967)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, regiment, forenames, surname, year of death, place of death
Order of information: Undefined - Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, regiment, forename, surname, year of death, place of death
Order of information: Undefined - Gulf War (1990-1991)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, regiment, forename, surname, year of death
Order of information: Undefined - Afghanistan (2001-2014)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, rank, service, place of death, year of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Pillar
Measurements: depth 2438 mm, height 9000 mm, width 2134 mm ba
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Pillar
- Condition
- NAIRN
- WMO ID: 144637
- Condition: Good [last updated on 23-10-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Gulf War & Afghanistan Casualtys added 15th July 2009
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2760&mforum=warmemscot
- Carter Postcard Collection
- Western Front Association Branch Newsletter May 2012, No 94 Nairn War Memorial 1914-1918 Stuart Farrell 2009
- BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND by GIFFORD, JOHN H & I (1992) p.281 Source: Image Library
- Nairnshire Telegraph 14 January 1922
- Inverness Courier 17 January 1922
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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