Stobs Camp Prisoners of War

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Reference WMO/256011

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The former Stobs Prisoner of War Camp

B6399

Stobs

TD9 9SF

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other monument
Materials:
  • Rock/Rough Stone Rock/Rough Stone
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A cemetery at Stobs Camp, about 3/4 mile north of Stobs Castle was in use from 1915 to 1919 with a monument- a cairn on a concrete base, raised on 6 stone steps. There were also two stone benches beside the cairn, and graves with headstones. The bodies were transferred to the Cannock Chase German cemetery in 1962 and at that time the monument, erected in 1917, was demolished, though the base and scattered rubble were left in situ. Grid reference for the cemetery is NT 50510 09561. Stobs Camp Project (a local initiative funded by HLF, HES, Borders LEADER, Fallago Environment Fund and BCCF Environment fund) volunteers have reconstructed the monument using the scatter of stones around the remains of the base. As far as was possible the stones were reinserted in the exact positions they had occupied in 1917. A new plaque was engraved by the volunteers and placed in situ as before with the same wording. The monument was unveiled for Armistice in 2018. The flight of steps leading up to the memorial platform were also reinstated by the volunteers. Funding for the original memorial was raised from a camp performance of Strauss & Offenbach on Easter Monday 1917. They had held a competition for the most suitable design.
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Unseren/ Kameraden/ die Fern d. Heimat /starben/___/1917 [which translates as- TO OUR COMRADES WHO DIED FAR FROM HOME - 1917]

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