Blairgowrie & Rattray

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Reference WMO/241014

Address:

The Wellmeadow

Commercial Street

Blairgowrie

PH10 6BH

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
About the memorial: Large column with a sculpture of a soldier standing at the base. Very large tapering column, topped by stone sculpture of flames. Mature Scottish soldier in great-coat and helmet, arms reversed and resting on his boot stands in front on a plinth. Above his head, further up column is a cross and wreath; three other sides of column inset in stone are rectangular bronze plaques; whole is on multi-stepped base in town centre. The column terminates in a pelican finial. Around the finial are the badges of Scottish Horse, The Gordon Highlanders, The Black Watch and The Scottish Thistle. The whole is on 7 octagonal steps. A low stone plinth projects from the south east base of the memorial with the WW2 and Korean War plaques
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North East Plaque:1914 - 1918/BLAIRGOWRIE AND RATTRAY ROLL OF HONOUR/[names] North West & South West Plaques- [WW1 names] Plinth- ALSO IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945//[names on plaques] Base of Plinth-KOREAN WAR 1950-53/[names]

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