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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:29 am Post subject: War Memorials in RHF Museum Sauchiehall St Glasgow |
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I have just read this post on another forum (here)
"Still searching - I visited RHF Museum in Sauchiehall Street and rumaged through some of their memorial plaques but found nothing of the Lyon Street memorial so I will have to continue along a different route - Anyone out there offer any help?
Raymond Bell"
I know a few years ago the Museum had a printed Roll of Honour for a Glasgow company in one of their great War display cabinets but from this post it looks like they have a few others. Does anyone know what they have?
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David McNay Administrator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 11425 Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I knew all they had on display was a reproduction of one of the name panels form the Royal Scots Fuslier statue in Burns Statue Square in Ayr. It was the Boer War panel they had.
They also have one of several reproductions of the head of the WW2 RSF state in Ayr. The sculptor made several copies and the museum holds one of them.
I dare say that they might have some items in storage. Might be worth contacting them. |
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Glesga Keelie
Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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The Lyon Street Memorial has turned out to be a complete mystery to all of us who have have been asked to help locate it. I was contacted by a lady whose children attend the school and I visited the school and the remains of the cobblestones which is suppossed to be some sort of unofficial memorial.
I also have the City of Glasgow Roll of Honour Book for the Great War but only so many residents of Lyon Street are registered in it and if I remember correctly there are more soldiers listed in the book from an adjoining street than there is Lyon Street.
I am of the opinion that perhaps it may have been the most soldiers killed from one tenement building rather than one street. Considering the size of Lyon Street compared to say for talking sake Scotland Street , Duke Street or Cumberland Street it is difficult to imagine how Lyon Street would have more casualties than these three extreemely long and densely occupied streets. |
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