The Scottish War Memorials Project

apanderson · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:52 am Post subject: GRANGEMOUTH

Memorial sits in Zetland Park, Grangemouth.

World War 1 (on the front of the memorial)

World War 2 (on the back of the memorial) + 1 name from the Korean War

spoons · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject:

Quite unusual, is that the British Lion attacking the German Eagle?

apanderson · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

I don't know!

It's quite a height and although it was a nice sunny day, as usual, the sun wasn't quite in the right position. I intend to go back and see if I can get a better photo and also if there's any note of a scuptor anywhere that I missed before.

Anne

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 897 Location: Glasgow

I took the sculpture to be symbolic of the crushing of the German Imperial Eagle by the British Empire.

Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject:

This man listed on the Second World War panel of the memorial was part of the ill-fated commando raid on the Norsk Hydro heavy water factory at Rjukan in Norway. He is also commemorated on the Operation Freshman Memorial at Skitten in Caithness.

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 261 (Airborne) Field Park Coy.
Age: 24
Date of Death: between 19/11/1942 and 20/11/1942
Service No: 1923037
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Catherine E. Campbell, of Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Z. 2.
Cemetery: Eiganes Churchyard, Stavanger, Norway
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