Liff War Memorial - Angus, Scotland.
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N 56° 28.972 W 003° 05.043
30V E 494823 N 6259826
Sandstone column and base, at the entrance of the church in the village of Liff, four miles to the west of the city of Dundee in Scotland.
Waymark Code: WM134HX
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/14/2020
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The small village of Liff is situated in the county of Angus on the border of the city of Dundee which it lies four miles west of the centre. Its parish church lies on the south-western edge of the village and has at the entrance, the First World War memorial commemorating the 35 men of the parish who lost their lives.
The memorial was unveiled in 1920, and takes the form of a Roman Doric fluted column in pink sandstone, surmounted by a ball finale block, and on top of an octagonal pedestal which contains the inscriptions on four faces. The main inscription reads as follows:
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
'IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO IN THE JOY OF YOUTH LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918'
The following names are inscribed on the other three faces:
Archibald Bathie
James Burgess
James Burry
Arnott Chalmers
George Clayhills
George Drew
George Boyd Duncan
William Fairweather
John Galt
Malcolm Gillies
Thomas Goodfellow
John Halkerston
William Halkerston
James Duncan Hay
William MacPherson Hay
Alexander Kinmond
Thomas Kinnear
Drummond Kenneth Lamond
Roy McCaskie
Robert McLagan
Gordon McNaughton
William McNaughton
George Maitland
Charles Mitchell
John Mudie
James Pratt Murray
Andrew Paul
Henry Jack Powrie
John Russel
Alexander Shields
James Smith
William Stewart
James Stormont
James White
Victor Whitwell