County of Peebles

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Reference WMO/141343

Address:

Chambers Institution (Dean's House)

High Street

Peebles

EH45 8AJ

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Shrine
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Limestone
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Afghanistan (2001 -)
About the memorial: A hexagonal shrine of white stone with a dome set in the middle of a wall. Inside the shrine is a cross in Sicilian limestone, inlaid with Sicilian mosaics. As the photos of the explanatory signs indicate, the inspiration is the superb cathedral at Monreale near Palermo.The bronze memorial tablets are set into the curved walls at the back of the shrine and these are framed with Sicilian mosaics. A superb memorial, easily missed as it is in the courtyard of the building donated to the town by William Chambers and now the town offices. And three cheers to the council for the sign telling people to treat it with respect, and not as a place to sit and eat your lunch. Scottish War Memorial Project notes include " As part of the original scheme the Morelands Military Hospital which served wounded servicemen through the Great War was fully re-furbished, extended and re-equipped to provide a hospital for the community and this was also inaugurated on the same day. Of £20,000 raised by the Peebles area £15,000 was contributed to the hospital, and £5,000 to the shrine." The memorial covers Broughton, Drumelzier, Eddleston, Innerleithen, Kirkurd, Lyne, Meggat, Manor, Newlands, Skirling, Stobo, Traquair, Tweedsmuir, Walkerburn, West Linton and Peebles Note that the WW1 names include 2 VC's- Piper James Richardson and Thomas Riversdale Collyer- Fergusson (under the West Linton names). Note that Thomas Riversdale Collyer-Fergusson was from Sevenoaks, Kent, and is widely commemorated in the county. However his connection to West Linton is unknown, and he is not commemorated on the West Linton memorial.
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WW1 plaques: BROUGHTON/ (Names)/ DRUMELZIER/ (Names)/ EDDLESTON/ (Names)/ INNERLEITHEN/ (Names)/ KIRKURD/ (Names)/ LYNE & MEGGAT/ LYNE/ (Name)/ MEGGAT/ (Names)/ MANOR/ (Names)/ NEWLANDS/ (Names)/ SKIRLING/ (Names)/ STOBO/ (Names)/ TRAQUAIR/ (Names)/ TWEEDSMUIR/ (Names)/ WALKERBURN/ (Names)/ WEST LINTON/ (Names)/ PEEBLES/ (Names); WW2 plaques: 1939 1945/ IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE OF THE COUNTY OF/ PEEBLES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR/ INNERLEITHEN/ (Names)/ LINTON/ (Names)/ WALKERBURN/ (Names)/ NEWLANDS/ (Names)/ TRAQUAIR/ (Name)/ TWEEDSMUIR/ (Name)/ BROUGHTON/ (Name)/ EDDLESTON/ (Name)/ LYNE/ (Name)/ SKIRLING/ (Name) Post-1945 plaque: IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE OF THE COUNTY OF/ PEEBLES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN CONFLICTS SINCE 1945/ AFGHANISTAN 2008/ (Name)

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