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Bo'ness War Memorial - Taken by Chaz 09 Apr 2017

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Reference WMO/152105

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Stewart Avenue

Junction with Church Wynd

Bo'ness

EH51 0EE

Scotland

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Status: On original site

Type: Freestanding

Location: External

Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace

Description: Obelisk

Materials:

Stone Granite

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)
Second World War (1939-1945)

About the memorial: A white stoned built thick obelisk on a plinth with inscriptions and on its front a wreath encircling a coat of arms.Metal plaques fixed to the obelisk contain names. Memorial stands in closely fenced square on a paved area in gardens.

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December 2017- As part of the Bo'ness War Memorial - Without Fear project we have found the following information. PRIVATE MICHAEL MULDOON 18, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was accidentally killed on 14th November, 1917 at Whinnyhill Range, Burntisland. He was buried with military honours at Bo'ness Cemetery on 17th November, 1917, Section B Lair 197 (thanks to Anne Anderson for help with that). There is no family headstone. Michael Muldoon's name was added to the CWGC Debt of Honour Register on 2 July 2019. Private MULDOON, MICHAEL Service Number TR/2/13417 Died 14 November 1917 Aged 18 55th Training Reserve Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Son of Patrick and the late Helen Muldoon of Bo'ness, West Lothian. A CWGC Headstone was dedicated at his grave on 28 May 2022

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Linlithgowshire Gazette - Friday 25 October 1946 -BO’NESS WELCOME HOME PLANS Open-Air Religious Ceremony SOUVENIR BOOK Bo'ness Welcome Home Committee, at a largely attended meeting in the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening last week, decided to hold a religious service in the Glebe Public Park on a Sunday still to be fixed to welcome home Service and ex-Service personnel who served in the recent war. It was arranged that at the end of the service, men and women eligible for the committee's gratuity will proceed to the Town Hall where they will receive, in addition to the £2 gratuity, a souvenir book containing a full list of the names on the Roll of Honour and the Service Roll. BRONZE PLAQUES APPROVED Councillor John Collee, convener of the committee, announced that the number of men who made the supreme sacrifice was 116, Including 20 who served in the Merchant Navy. The Service Roll bears the names of 1885 men and women. The committee are arranging to add to the Blackness War Memorial the names of two men from the village who died on active service. The gratuity will be presented to 44 men and women belonging to Blackness and district. The meeting decided, after inspection, to accept artistic designs for two plaques bearing the names of the fallen. These will be fashioned in bronze and will be erected on the east and west sides of the Cenotaph at a level of three feet above the top step. The drawings were prepared by Messrs Galt & Barr, architects. Glasgow, who designed the memorial unveiled in July. 1924.

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Thomas Brown- one of the men named, is not commemorated by the CWGC. As part of the Bo’ness War Memorial Without Fear Project he has been identified.  He had been discharged from the Army Service Corps on 16th Apr 1916. He died suddenly on 21st March 1918.

The only information we could find was from local newspapers:
Bo’ness Journal, 22 March 1918:
Sudden Death: Yesterday afternoon a man named Thomas Brown (40), employed by the North British Railway Company’s contractor as a lorryman, was delivering goods at Newtown Store, and carrying a sack into the store he was seized with sudden illness. The employees in the store did what they could for him, but he died in a very short time. The unfortunate man whose home was at Corbiehall, only started work with the contractor yesterday morning.
Linlithgowshire Gazette, 29 March 1918:
Sudden Death of a Lorryman: Last Thursday afternoon Thomas Brown, lorryman, dropped dead while in the act of carrying a bag of meal into the Newtown branch of the Bo’ness Co-operative Society. He collapsed on the door-step, death being due to heart failure. Brown, himself a discharged soldier, relieved a younger man for the Army, and he had just entered upon his new occupation as a railway lorryman when the tragic event occurred. Deceased was aged 40 and leaves a widow and three children who reside at [61] Corbiehall.

Now using Pension Records and Ledgers we have confirmed this is indeed the right man, Thomas Brown, Army Service Corps,1st Labour Company, service no: SS/4404. Importantly his records also show that his death was caused by heart failure aggravated by active service.

Thomas is buried in common ground, grave G.141, in Bo’ness Cemetery with no headstone or marker.

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3 o'clock face (carved into stonework)- FRANCE / BELGIUM / RUSSIA / ITALY / GALLIPOLI 9 o'clock face (carved into stonework)- SALONICA/PALESTINE/MESOPOTAMIA/EGYPT/AFRICA 12 o'clock face (carved into stonework)- TO/OUR/GLORIOUS/DEAD/1914 1918 Each of 2 WW1 Plaques- SALUTE THE MEMORY OF/THESE THY SONS/WHO FOUGHT & LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/IN THE GREAT WAR/[names in 4 columns]/AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING/WE WILL REMEMBER THEM First WW2 Plaque-1939 SALUTE THE MEMORY OF THESE THY SONS WHO FOUGHT/AND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR/1945/[names in 5 columns] Second WW2 Plaque-1939 SALUTE THE MEMORY OF THESE THY SONS WHO FOUGHT/AND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR/1945/[names in 2 columns & top of 3rd], [in column 3- MERCHANT NAVY/names; continuing in columns 4 & 5]

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