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spoons
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 Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: New Galloway, Kells Parish |
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This memorial is not listed on UKNIWM
OS Map Ref: NX 636 777
This memorial is very large indeed. I am not good at judging heights but this is the highest memorial I have seen, I was going to say in any small town or village, but I cannot remember a taller one anywhere else either. Made all the more impressive by the fact that it stands on a mound.
Jane Nodwell (VAD) appears on the memorial and also on the memorial at Dumfries Academy. As with many VAD, she does not appear on CWGC but I have tracked down her grave which is also in New Galloway at Kells church (just a little way up the road). I have also posted the photo of her grave following the memorial and the transcription of the inscription is:
In LOVING MEMORY OF
VAD NURSE JANE LAUDER
(JANIE)
THE DEARLY BELOVED
SECOND DAUGHTER OF
SAMUEL & JANET NODWELL
WHO DIED ON SERVICE AT
YORKHILL WAR HOSPITAL GLASGOW
19TH NOVEMBER 1918
and Janes grave......................
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Adam Brown
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Note the number of Cameron Highlanders listed on this memorial. Unusual for a KOSB area.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| Adam Brown wrote: | Note the number of Cameron Highlanders listed on this memorial. Unusual for a KOSB area.
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A litttle research has turned up this photo. Published in a book in 2002, the inscription is presumably from 1915. Two of those in the photo; Adam Byers and William Stewart subsequently died in the war and are listed on this memorial.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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You will notice that a mistake in the naming of the men in the above photo has slipped through the editorial process - there are five men standing in the back row, but only four names are given. The missing name is Lance Corporal John Geddes, who is mentioned further on in the text. L/Cpl Geddes is 2nd from the left between Pte Black and L/Cpl Byers.
| Quote: | | Note the number of Cameron Highlanders listed on this memorial. Unusual for a KOSB area. |
One of the main reasons for the relatively low KOSB enlistment in the New Galloway area was localised political fall-out from the decision not to include the Kells as one of the companies in the newly formed 5th KOSB (TF) in 1908. New Galloway had always been a strong supporter of the Galloway Rifle Volunteers ('E' Coy.) and so expected to be represented in the new set-up. However, once they realised that they were being overlooked there was a great deal of ill-feeling towards the 5th Battalion and so very few men from the area ended up with the KOSB.
New Galloway's antipathy towards the new set-up is expressed more fully by Ian Devlin in Albanich: "With a sufficiency of recruits within the Dumfries and Galloway region, it was considered that 'E' Company, New Galloway.... was drawn from too remote an area and it was with some reluctance that this Company was disbanded. It was to be many a long day before the men of New Galloway and the Glenkens were to forgive their home Regiment, the KOSB for their ingratitude to a Company who had produced many of the Regiments finest marksmen, two of the Regiments four Commanding Officers and their Colour Sergeant, now Sergeant Major Grierson, who had captured Commandant Wolmaran and 30 armed men in South Africa in 1901. From that date [1908] the men of the Glenkens were to offer their future services to the Cameron Highlanders."
Although omitting the reason which lay behind it, it is even noted in the official history of the 5th KOSB that: ".... the first man enlisted in New Galloway went to the Cameron Highlanders. As soon as he had been seen swaggering in his kilt down the High Street of this ancient burgh, nine or ten of his chums went off to join that regiment."
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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I returned today to take some better photos and make a better estimate of the size of this memorial. It stands on a square raised platform approximately 5 feet high. The memorial rises to approximately 25 feet above the hight of the platform.
It has already been commented on the unusual design and construction. Would anyone care to venture a description? Stepped pyramid perhaps?
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| I have renamed this memorial thread to better reflect both the location (and name known locally) as well as the parish to which it is dedicated. |
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