Glenfinnan

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Reference WMO/140290

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A830

Glenfinnan

PH37 4LT

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Marble figure of a kilted soldier with steel helmet with head bowed and reversed hands resting on the stock of a rifle, all on a stone plinth and reversed rifle set on a column of 6 square stones set within a fenced area just off the main road. Dismantled and rebuilt during the 1960s due to road improvements, however the base now faces the wrong way - names are on the rear as opposed to the front where they were originally. The memorial has inscriptions of 7 names for WW1. There is only one inscribed face on this memorial, so it is perhaps surprising that the inscribed names are not visible from the front of the memorial. One theory put forward is that this may have been clever forethought as regards providing some shelter from the prevailing weather. There is evidence that there was a small path which approached the memorial from behind. The sculptor has not left his identifying mark on the memorial, but the wooden rifle is remarkably similar to that on the Fort William War Memorial.
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Remember always these men who gave / their lives for us in the Great War / 1914 - 1919

Archibald McLean, Angus McLeod, James McLaren, Duncan McKenzie, Colin McKenzie, George Blyth, Donald McAlpin

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https://her.highland.gov.uk/Monument/MHG53189

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