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Title
Inverness Great War Memorial
Date
1922
Medium
sandstone
Measurements
H 1000 x W 1200 x D 500 cm (E)
Accession number
IV2_DO_S052
Acquisition method
purchased by public subscription
Work type
War memorial
Owner
The Highland Council
Custodian
The Highland Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
C (Scotland)
Unveiling date
16th December 1922
Listing date
15/06/81
Access
at all times
Inscription description
base of the cross (front): TO THE / GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THE BURGH / AND PARISH OF INVERNESS / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1918; base of the cross (right): THEY FOUGHT FOR / KING AND COUNTRY / FAITH AND FREEDOM / NOR DID THEY FIGHT IN VAIN / "Fear not that ye have died for naught, / The Torch ye threw to us is caught, / Ten million hands will hold it high, / And Freedom's light shall never die, / We've learned the lesson that ye taught / In Flanders fields." base of the cross (left): This Monument is more than bronze or stone, / A peoples' gratitude is here revealed, / By this for evermore, our debt we own / To those whose blood our victory hath sealed. This is from now a truly sacred place, / And while the Ness reflects our native skies, / This shrine shall point for each succeeding race / The path of duty, love and sacrifice."; WE HONOUR THEM / FOR / WHAT WE OWE THEM; base of the cross (rear): DURING THE WAR / UPWARDS OF 5000 MEN OF THE BURGH / AND PARISH OF INVERNESS / WENT OUT ON ACTIVE SERVICE / AND NOBLY UPHELD THE HONOUR / OF THEIR COUNTRY. / OF THESE GALLANT MEN 717 RETURNED NO MORE. / TO THEIR MEMORY THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY A GRATEFUL COMMUNITY / AND UNVEILED ON THE 16TH DECR 1922 / BY COLONEL THE MACKINTOSH OF MACKINTOSH / LORD LIEUTENANT OF INVERNESS-SHIRE.; base of the cross (lowest section, rear): THE PANELS COMMEMORATING THOSE / WHO FELL IN 1939–1945 WERE / UNVEILED ON NOVEMBER 11th., 1956, BY / PROVOST ROBERT WOTHERSPOON; lower section of the cross (rear): IN THREE CONTINENTS / AND IN THE DEEP THEY LIE / BUT IN OUR HEARTS THEIR DEEDS / FOR EVER ARE ENSHRINED; lower section of the cross (left): AN / COGADH MÒR / 1914–1918; lower section of the cross (right): AN / COGADH MÒR / 1914–1918; right pillar (facing inwards): BATTLE HONOURS / 19147 / MENIN ROAD / BROODSEINDE / POLYGON WOOD / PASSCHENDAELE / 1917-CAMBRAIN-1918 / ST QUENTIN / ROSIÈRES / 1918 / BAPAUME/ LYS / ESTAIRES /MESSINES / HAZEBROUCK / BÉTHUNE / BAILLEUL / SCHERPENBERG / KEMMEL / SOISSONAIS-OURCQ / TARDENOIS / AMIENS / DROCOURT-QUÉANT; right pillar (facing forwards): BATTLE HONOURS / 1918/HINDENBURG-LINE HAVRINCOURT / EPEHY / CANAL DU NORD / ST QUENTIN CANAL / BEAUREVOIR / PURSUIT TO MONS / COURTTRAI / VALECIENNES / SELLE / SAMBRE / 1915-GALLIPOLI-1916 / HELLES / LANDING AT HELLES / KRITHIR / SUVLA /SCIMITAR HILL / 1915-EGYPT-1916 / RUMANI / 1915-MACEDONIA-1918; right pillar (facing outwards): BATTLE HONOURS / 1916-MESOPOTAMIA-1918 / TIGRIS / KUT AL AMARA / SHARQAT / 1917-PALESTINE-1918 / GAZA / EL MUGHAR / NEBI SAMWIL /JERUSALEM / JERICHO / JORDON / TELL ASUR / JAFFA / 1917-STRUMA-1918 / PIAVE / VITTORIA VENETO / DOIRAN / 1918 / ARCHANGE / 1919 / MURMAN; left pillar (facing inwards): BATTLE HONOURS / 1916-ALBERT-1918 / 1916 / BAZENTIN / DELVILLE WOOD / POZIÈRES / GUILLEMONT / GINCHY/FLERS-GOURCELETTE / MORVAL / ANCRE HEIGHTS / ANCRE / LE TRANSLOY / 1917-ARRAS-1918 / VIMY / 1917-SCARPE-1918 / ARLEUX / BULLECOURT / PILCKEM / POELCAPPELLE / LANGEMARCK; left pillar (facing forwards): BATTLE HONOURS / 1914 / MESSINES / ARMENTIERES / NEUVE CHAPELLE / LANGEMARCK / YPRES 1915-17/18 / GHELUVELT / NONNE BOSSCHEN / GIVENCHY/GRAVENSTAFEL /HILL 60 / STJULIAN / FREZENBERG / BELLEWAARDE / AUBERS / 1915 / FESTUBERT / HOOGE / LOOS / 1916-SOMME-1918; left pillar (facing outwards): BATTLE HONOURS / NAVAL ACTIONS / 1914 / HELIGOLAND/FALKLAND ISLANDS / 1916 / JUTLAND / 1918 /ZEEBRUGGEE / LAND ACTIONS / 1914 / MONS / LE CATEAU / RETREAT FROM MONS / 1914 MARNE 1918 / AISNE / LA BASÉE; wall (left side, rear): TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BURGH AND PARISH / WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR; (plaques inscribed with the names of the dead: 14 bronze plaques facing forwards (First World War); 6 bronze plaques to the rear (left side) and outer left side of the monument (Second World War); 1 granite plaque to the rear right side (post-1945)