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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: Liverpool Scottish Memorial, Bellewaarde near Ypres |
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Liverpool Scottish Memorial, Bellewaarde near Ypres. Unveiled 29th July, 2000.
In the Battle of Hooge on the 16th June 1915, known officially as the 'First Action at Bellewaarde':
'Of 23 officers and 519 other ranks who went into action, only two officers .... and 140 men came through untouched'.
(From The Liverpool Scottish 1900 -1919 by Lt. Col A.M. McGilchrist published by Henry Young and Sons 1930)
http://www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk/stoneunv.htm
http://www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk/history.htm
Picture courtesy of Andy Lonergan. _________________
Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. |
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DerekR Moderator
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DerekR Moderator
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:42 am Post subject: |
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The unusual shape of this memorial is because the sandstone bit came from the old Liverpool Scottish Drill Hall which was demolished in 1967.
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oldbaldy
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:27 am Post subject: |
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I visited this memorial earlier this month. The flagpole is no longer there. Behind the memorial in Railway Wood, the mine craters have recently been cleared of trees & one crater drained, at the bottom were some unexploded Stokes Motars! |
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