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suzebain
Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 39
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: Brimmond Hill, Newhills Parish |
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SITUATED AT THE TOP OF BRIMMOND HILL.
ERECTED BY STONEYWOOD LITERARY GUILD IN 1917.
INSCRIPTION
TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF NEWHILLS PARISH AND DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR.
1914 - 1919
INSCRIPTION:
(STONEYWOOD LITERARY GUILD CREST)
WAR MEMORIAL
ERECTED 2ND JUNE 1917
DESIGNED BY ??
GEO. ROBB, ENGRAVER, ADELPHI, ABERDEEN |
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dhubthaigh Our first ever 1000-poster
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 5071 Location: Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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What a lovely, and unusual memorial. |
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Lovely memorial, and 1917 is about the earliest I have seen for a Great War memorial.
\Paul |
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dhubthaigh Our first ever 1000-poster
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 5071 Location: Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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spoons wrote: | Lovely memorial, and 1917 is about the earliest I have seen for a Great War memorial.
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Well spotted - very strange ! |
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:39 am Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number |
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WMR 5816.
Apparently it was restored and rededicated in 1977 (for the Queen's Silver Jubilee) when the designers mark was legible. It is G.G.J. AND GEORGE ROBB, ENGRAVER, ADELPHI, ABERDEEN |
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