Soldier's Departure and Glasgow Victoria Cross holders

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Reference WMO/271520

Address:

Glasgow Central Station

Gordon Street

Glasgow

G1 3SL

Scotland

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
  • Crimean War (1853-1856)
  • Non-Specific Conflict
  • Other
About the memorial: Black Marble tablet with incised gold lettering on the wall above the buffer stops on Platform 1. Between 14 August 2021 and 19 May 2022 this became a far more complicated memorial. There is now also a tablet to Victoria Cross winners and lots of little tablets.
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The Original Tablet-ON THESE PLATFORMS,/IN TWO WORLD WARS,/HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF/SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN SAID/GOODBYE TO THEIR FAMILIIES/SOME FOR THE LAST TIME; The added VC tablet at top centre- VICTORIA CROSS/IN MEMORY OF/SOME VICTORIA CROSS/RECIPIENTS FROM GLASGOW/AND THE WEST OF SCOTLAND New Tablet bottom left- THIS MEMORIAL WALL WAS UNVEILED ON/SUNDAY THE 5TH MAY 2022 (V/E DAY) BY/MR ANDREW MCFARLANE/THE VICE DEAN OF GUILD OF THE/MERCHANTS HOUSE OF GLASGOW/& LIEUTENANT GENERAL (Rtd)/SIR ANDREW GREGORY/K.B.E. C.B. D.L. CONTROLLER/SSAFA- THE ARMED FORCES CHARITY ; New Tablet bottom centre-VETERANS/IN MEMORY OF VETERANS/PAST AND PRESENT; New Tablet bottom right- THESE SPONSORED PLAQUES IN MEMORY OF/VICTORIA CROSS RECIPIENTS AND VETERANS/ARE THE BRAINCHILD OF MR DREW BURNS/GLASGOW CENTRAL STATION MANAGER/AND MR TERRY MCCOURT- 2 PARA VETERAN/THE MONEY RAISED FOR EACH PLAQUE HELPED/FUND THE STATIONS ROUTES OUT OF/HOMELESSNESS OF WHICH THERE ARE 5/RECIPIENTS, AND IN ADDITION SSAFA/GLASGOW AND RENFREWSHIRE BRANCH

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