The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

DerekR · Last edited by DerekR on Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:47 pm; edited 1 time in total

UKNIWM ref no: not listed
OS map Ref: NG942212

Location: on hillside at side of A87 between Tigh-Geal and Ault A' Chruinn.

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DerekR · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

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DerekR · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

Erected by the Clan MACRAE and friends in memory of the MACRAES and relatives at home and abroad who fell in the great world war 1914 -1918
"GUS AM BRIS AN LA."

Unveiled by Sir Colin MACRAE 15th July 1922

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IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 949

Dramatic location - wonderful memorial.

DerekR · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:

Below this memorial is an ancient MACRAE burial ground.
In it arr at least 3 graves from the Great War period - 2 of whom are Macraes.

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Adam Brown · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

There is another Clan MacRae War Memorial at Eilean Donan Castle. It's a bronze plaque with hundreds of names. See here:

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2715

john burnett · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife

Another photo

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow

An older photograph of the memorial.

There is also a bronze memorial panel on the interior wall of the ruined church:

DerekR · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject:

Jamie.
Well done, you captured the memorial on a good day (and before the railings were removed)
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Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:36 am Post subject:

From the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) website

Kintail, Macrae War Memorial

Type of Site: War Memorial
NMRS Number: NG92SW 20
Map reference: NG 9457 2108
Parish: Kintail
Council: Highland
Former District: Skye And Lochalsh
Former Region: Highland

Site Summary

On a knoll above, the Clan MacRae War Memorial, James Gray of Glasgow, 1922, with a sad kilted soldier stepping out of a hewn granite block - probably carved by the same craftsman working at Eilean Donan at this time.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

This memorial is WMR report 57256