The Minesweeper Sculpture


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Reference WMO/291550

Address:

The Promenade

Montrose

DD10 8EL

Scotland

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Outside - hilltop/field/countryside
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Metal Bronze
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Bronze Sculpture with a metal plaque at it's base. This life-size bronze statue, looking out over Montrose bay, depicts the local minesweeper whose job it was to patrol the dunes during the Second World War to keep a watchful eye for stray mines which might be swept into Montrose harbour on incoming tides. The sculptor William Lamb was born in in 1893 and died in 1951. He had trained as a stonemason before WW1 and hoped to work as an artist. However, he ended up losing the use of his right hand fighting in the trenches, meaning that he had to re-train to work with his left hand. Many of his statues are of the ordinary people of Montrose, often shown being buffeted by the wind in this very windy place! He was a friend of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid who encouraged him to stay in Montrose and focus his art on expressing the character and people of the area. It was made in 1944 but not placed here until 1950.
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MINESWEEPER/TRAINED IN MONTROSE/DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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