
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Gate
- District
- Midlothian
- Town
- Penicuik
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Opened
Date: 18 March 1927
Attended by: Her Royal Highness Princess Mary
- Opened
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 89096
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Current location
Glencorse Barracks
Edinburgh Road
Penicuik
Midlothian
Lothian
EH26 0QL
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 246 619
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Ornamental gates with stone dedication tablet on the gatepost. The smaller side gates are flanked by massive gate houses with steeply pitched roofs.
- Inscription
- TO THE/GLORIOUS MEMORY/OF THOSE/ROYAL SCOTS/WHO FAITHFUL/UNTO DEATH/GAVE THEIR LIVES/FOR KING AND/COUNTRY IN/THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War - civilians
- Components
- Gates
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wrought Iron - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Gates
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1636&mforum=warmemscot
- The Times 19 March 1927 page 13d- Unveiling report
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