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David McNay
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 Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject: Thankful villages |
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We received the following email into the SWMP mailbox recently, can anyone help?
| Quote: | Dear madam or Sir,
My name is Rod Morris and along with Norman Thorpe and Tom Morgan run the Thankful Villages website which you can find at this link:
http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/thankful.htm or, if you prefer, just go the Google anf type in 'Thankful Villages' - there is further info on Google Earth and Wikipedia.
A 'Thankful Village' is one that suffered no fatalities during the Great War of 1914 to 1918 and to date we have certified 50 of them - 47 in England and 3 in Wales. We have not, as yet, traced any in Scotland or Ireland and we are keen to establish whether any exist. Obviously your research, contacts and interest in Scotland's War Memorials might have brought you into contact with the subject matter and we would be most grateful if you could give us any information - even if it is to confirm that no such places exist in Scotland.
Many thanks for any help you can give,
Yours sincerely,
Rod Morris |
I was under the impression that there are no Thankful Villages in Scotland, is that definitely the case? |
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dhubthaigh
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I'm not trying to be obtuse here but what is the definition of a village - population, size etc.
Most of Scotlands war memorials were, I believe, erected by Parish (sorry!). So we'd use those as our yardstick wouldn't we ?
For Perthshire, off the top of my head, there are no memorials in the Parishes of Abernyte, nor Lethendy & Kinloch. Although I know that men from these Parishes were killed !!. |
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spoons
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Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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I seem to remember a thread from the GWF on the subject and it was mentioned there that there were no thankful villages in Scotland but that may be because there are none listed on the site so it might be a circular argument.
In thinking about it, I know of hardly any village memorials, they are almost all parish memorials and some of the parishes are rural communities with no villages or hamlets, Irongray and Wamphray are two examples.
We know that proportionately more Scots signed up, probably because of the poor employment opportunities and Scots regiments had a particularly tough time so I would be very surprised if there was a thankful village in Scotland.
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dhubthaigh
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| spoons wrote: | | I would be very surprised if there was a thankful village in Scotland. |
There is a challenge ! |
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DelBoy
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Location: The County of Angus
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I was told by a minister (so it must be true  ) that the town/village his father came from in Ayrshire suffered no casualties in one of the wars, therefore they had a memorial made to commemorate those who served.
I wish I could remember where he said it was, but it was a random encounter so little chance of speaking again  |
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 6:56 am Post subject: Thankful villages |
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I am not aware of one, and suspect there are none, in Scotland due to the disproportionate percentage of the Scots population who enlisted and fell by comparison with England.
During WW2 The Parish of Glass, Aberdeenshire, unusually, had no casualties.
The Glass Parish War Memorial advises " ALSO OF THE FIFTY FIVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO OFFERED THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR AND WHO RETURNED SAFELY "
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If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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