Aberdalgie War Memorial - Perth & Kinross, Scotland
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War Memorial in the form of a cross, outside the entrance to the church in the hamlet of Aberdalgie, three miles south-west of the Scottish city of Perth.
Waymark Code: WM18MDK
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/23/2023
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Aberdalgie is a parish and series of small hamlets three miles south-west of Perth in Scotland, on the north side of the valley of the River Earn. At the entrance to the church is the war memorial which was designed by Mr Millar RSA and unveiled on November 27th 1920 in the presence of the Duke of Atholl, and dedicated by the Rev. R.S.V. Logie.
The memorial takes the form of a cross on a plinth and base in front of a wall which bears the following inscriptions:
'IN HONOUR OF THOSE BELONGING TO THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'
On the plinth are twelve names with rank and unit.
William Craig - Sergeant, Motor Transport, R.A.S.C.
Ian Ross MacGregor - Corporal, Motor Machine, Gun Corps
Horace Watson - L/Corporal, Machine Gun Corps
Charles Hutton - Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery
Gilbert S. Smith - Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery
James Glen - Trooper, Scottish Horse
James Sharp - Private, Black Watch
William Berry - Private, Black Watch
Sinclair Manson - Private, Royal Scots
William Morrison Louden - Private, Black Watch
Robert Brown Louden - Private, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
George William Cropper - Private, London Scottish