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A tall, freestanding pillar set on a two-stepped square plinth and two-stepped octagonal base. On the 6 o'clock face are a cast wreath enclosing a Saltire with three plaques below. The Polish troops plaque was added between image sets dated 2007 and 2019. The memorial was moved in 1990 to its present site in a park alongside the Menstrie Burn. It sits on the centre of a small circular gravel area cut out of the grass strip to the west of the path.

Title

Menstrie (Polish War Memorial)

Date

c.1923

Medium

stone & bronze

Accession number

FK11_GB_S016

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Clackmannanshire Council

Custodian

Clackmannanshire Council

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

top plaque: PRESENTED BY / MENSTRIE COMMUNITY COUNCIL / TO COMMEMORATE / THE POLISH TROOPS / STATIONED IN MENSTRIE / DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, / WHO FOUGHT AND FELL / FOR THE FREEDOM OF / FUTURE GENERATIONS; centre plaque: 1914-1918 / THEY WHO ARE COMMEMORATED / HERE AT THE CALL OF KING AND / COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT WAS / DEAR TO THEM AND GAVE UP THEIR / LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE / IN FREEDOM. LET THOSE WHO / COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR / NAMES ARE NOT FORGOTTEN / [names]; on the upper tier of the base: 1914-1918; on the lower tier of the base: 1939-1945 / ALSO COMMEMORATED HERE ARE / THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / [names]

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