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War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial

Image credit: Duncan McDowall / Art UK

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A Scottish soldier reloading his gun atop a cenotaph-like column containing the Highlanders' crest and names and inscriptions in metal. The work is set within a memorial garden.
Title

War Memorial

Date

1919

Medium

bronze & stone

Accession number

AB55_DM_S010

Acquisition method

purchased by public subscription

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Keith Community Council

Custodian

Keith Community Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

B (Scotland)

Unveiling date

11th November 1923

Listing date

24/03/88

Access

at all times

Inscription description

front: 6TH BATTN THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS / BANFFSHIRE AND DONSIDE / TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND / IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS / NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918 / ALSO THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR / 1939 - 1945 / LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT / THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN (left side) EGYPT / BATTKE HOMOURS / 1915 / NEUVE CHAPPELLE AUBERS RIDGE / FESTUBERT GIVENCHY LOOS / 1916 / THE SOMME / POZIERES RIDGE BEAUMONT HAME / 1917 / ROCLINCOURT ARRRAS / FIRST SCARPE SECOND SCARPE / THIRD SCARPE YPRES / PILCKEM RIDGE CAMBRAI 1917 / 1918 / FIRST SOMME 1918 / THE LS / ESTAIRES HAZEBROUCK / THE MARNE TARDENOIS / SECOND ARRAS THE SCARPE / HINDENBURGH LINE / CAMBRAI 1918 THE SELLE; on separate plaque: IN MEMORY OF THOSE / WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE / OF THEIR COUNTRY / OUTWITH THE PERIOD OF / THE TWO WORLD WARS

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Located at

Land Street, Keith

AB55 5BR

Situated at the junction with Church Street.