The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

DerekR

Liverpool Scottish Memorial, Bellewaarde near Ypres. Unveiled 29th July, 2000.

In the Battle of Hooge on the 16th June 1915, known officially as the 'First Action at Bellewaarde':

'Of 23 officers and 519 other ranks who went into action, only two officers .... and 140 men came through untouched'.
(From The Liverpool Scottish 1900 -1919 by Lt. Col A.M. McGilchrist published by Henry Young and Sons 1930)

http://www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk/stoneunv.htm
http://www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk/history.htm

Picture courtesy of Andy Lonergan.
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

DerekR · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject:

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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

DerekR · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject:

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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:42 am Post subject:

The unusual shape of this memorial is because the sandstone bit came from the old Liverpool Scottish Drill Hall which was demolished in 1967.

Adam

oldbaldy · Joined: 06 Nov 2012 Posts: 23

I visited this memorial earlier this month. The flagpole is no longer there. Behind the memorial in Railway Wood, the mine craters have recently been cleared of trees & one crater drained, at the bottom were some unexploded Stokes Motars!