The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

spoons · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:11 am Post subject:

Marion (May) McQueen

spoons · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 2:04 pm Post subject:

The memorial has been repaired with a grant of £1,655 from the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund; Scottish Government funds administered by the War Memorials Trust. This memorial and its restoration is given a full page in the November issue of the War Memorial Trust Bulletin.

spoons · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:38 am Post subject:

Article in today's Galloway News about the recent repair.

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

Press article on the rededication of the memorial this coming Sunday, 14 November 2021, delayed by a year due to Covid.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/balmaghie-kirk-war-memorial-rededicated-25368034

spoons · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 1:47 pm Post subject:

Photos taken of the re-dedication service on 14 Nov 2021.

spoons · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 1:51 pm Post subject:

I was pleased to meet the grand-daughter of James McIver and explain how members of SMRG had discovered that his name was missing from CWGC's Debt of Honour register and had managed to get him added so that his was now an official war grave. She asked me to pass on thanks from the family and she confirmed that the correct spelling of the name is McIver and that it is the memorial that has his name misspelt.

\Paul