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Brimmond Hill, Newhills Parish

 
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suzebain



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:49 pm    Post subject: Brimmond Hill, Newhills Parish Reply with quote
SITUATED AT THE TOP OF BRIMMOND HILL.
ERECTED BY STONEYWOOD LITERARY GUILD IN 1917.




INSCRIPTION
TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF NEWHILLS PARISH AND DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR.
1914 - 1919




INSCRIPTION:

(STONEYWOOD LITERARY GUILD CREST)

WAR MEMORIAL
ERECTED 2ND JUNE 1917

DESIGNED BY ??

GEO. ROBB, ENGRAVER, ADELPHI, ABERDEEN
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dhubthaigh
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What a lovely, and unusual memorial.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lovely memorial, and 1917 is about the earliest I have seen for a Great War memorial.

\Paul
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
spoons wrote:
Lovely memorial, and 1917 is about the earliest I have seen for a Great War memorial.

\Paul

Well spotted - very strange !
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