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Latitude: 56.3748 / 56°22'29"N
Longitude: -3.8441 / 3°50'38"W
OS Eastings: 286203
OS Northings: 721807
OS Grid: NN862218
Mapcode National: GBR 1H.26CQ
Mapcode Global: WH4N2.X1M9
Plus Code: 9C8R95F4+W8
Entry Name: Gates And Railings, War Memorial With Boundary Wall, Comrie Road, Crieff
Listing Name: Comrie Road, War Memorial with Boundary Walls, Railings and Gate
Listing Date: 20 February 2002
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395872
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48453
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Crieff, Comrie Road, War Memorial With Boundary Wall, Gates And Railings
ID on this website: 200395872
Location: Crieff
County: Perth and Kinross
Town: Crieff
Electoral Ward: Strathearn
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: War memorial
Peter MacGregor Chalmers, architect; Peter Crerar, Crieff, builder; 1921. 3-stage cross finialled, octagonal WWI war memorial with WWII inscription. Cullaloe stone. 24'6" high.
MEMORIAL: battered octagonal base, each face with cast bronze plate containing names of fallen, surmounted by relief carved band with inscription "IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WARS 1914-18 1939-45" (See Notes). Stepped 2nd stage reducing to slender octagonal shaft (again battered) banded with regimental emblems, symbols of the Colonies and Nursing Services giving way to heavily carved capital bearing Scottish Arms, St Andrews Cross, Arms of Perth County and Burgh of Crieff, alternating with Scottish thistles. Whole surmounted by cross.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low, flat-coped squared rubble boundary walls with inset ironwork railings and gate.
Erected on a site chosen by the architect and unveiled by Major General Bannatine Allason on 20 November, 1921, the memorial commemorates the sacrifice of 168 men and 2 women (members of the Army Nursing Service). The inscription has been altered to include WWII.
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