Laurencekirk War Memorial

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Reference WMO/172620

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Laurencekirk Memorial Park

Garvock Street

Laurencekirk

AB30 1FJ

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Obelisk
Lettering: Leaded
About the memorial: The memorial is at the east end of a Memorial Park visible from the B9120 entrance to the town off the A90. Names on SWMP Link. War Memorial commemorates the dead from the burgh and parish for World War I and II. It is a tall rectangular obelisk of rough hewn granite with a crenellated top. The south face is the memorial to World War I with the plaque bearing the names cut into the surface. Above it is a swag which lies beneath a rampant lion. Below the names is an inset plaque with a crossed sabre and standard with the dates 1914 and 1919. Down the west side is a large sword pointing down. It was erected on 16 July 1922. On the north face at the base is the memorial to World War II, above which is a later additional carved plaque commemorating a member of the Scots Guard killed in the Falklands War of 1982, and a member of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps killed on duty in Northern Ireland. Memorial public park, which commemorates those who gave their lives in World War 1 and was gifted to the town after the war. Football and cricket pavilions were provided, which have since been lost.
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