
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- East Lothian
- Town
- Gifford
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: March 1921
Attended by: General Sir Francis Davies, of Scottish Command
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 89313
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Current location
outside Yester Parish Church
Main Street
Gifford
East Lothian
Lothian
EH41 4QH
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 53460 68079
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Celtic cross on a tapered pedestal and a 3 stage base. The dedication is carved on the shaft of the cross, and the names in 2 columns on the pedestal- both on the 6 o'clock face
- Inscription
- IN/GRATEFUL/MEMORY OF/THOSE WHO/DIED FOR US/1914-1918/[names]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bald, James
Bald, Robert
Brown, Marcus
Brown, William
Crozier, John S B
Dickson, Andrew
Donaldson, John
Fraser, Murdoch
Hay, (lord) Arthur V
Ketchey, John
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 0
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname THEN forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Pedestal
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2094&mforum=warmemscot
- The Scotsman 26 March 1921. WAR MEMORIALS YESTER PARISH.— A Celtic cross, composed of Craikland stone, in memory of 18 men of Yester Parish, East Lothian, has been unveiled at Gifford by General Sir Francis Davies, of Scottish Command. There was a large attendance. There were also representatives of the local Comrades and the Boy Scouts. The Marquis of Tweeddale, in introducing Sir Francis Davies, said he hoped that the memorial would be an example to all future generations, reminding them what the noble men whose names were engraved thereon had died for, and that Britain would prove worthy of these sacrifices. Sir Francis Davies said that he had unveiled a great many memorials in different parts of the country, but he had always considered that the kind which touched him most was such as in a small parish like Gifford, where the heroes had been known to the people from their youth upwards. He alluded to the utter devastation of the Somme area, which in many respects was not unlike East Lothian, and impressed upon those at home what the Germans would have perpetrated in this country had they succeeded in landing. Having unveiled the memorial, the names of the fallen were read by the Marquis of Tweeddale, followed by the sounding of the "Last Post." Several wreaths were placed on the memorial.
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