The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject:

This design is quite similar to the Cranstoun Parish Memorial here:

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1638

Adam

DelBoy · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:25 am Post subject: Memorial Transcription

Jame Bald
Robert Bald
Marcus Brown
William Brown
John C.B. Crozier
Andrew Dickson
John Donaldson
Murdoch Fraser
Lord Arthur V. Hay
John Ketchey
James Lawrie
Peter Lugton
Thomas Mack
Robert Neilson
David Ritchie
James Sibbald
Charles P.Y. Stark
William Welsh

DelBoy · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:27 am Post subject: Lord Arthur Vincent Hay

Name: HAY, LORD ARTHUR VINCENT
Initials: A V
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Irish Guards
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 14/09/1914
Additional information: Son of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale and the Marchioness of Tweeddale, of 6, Hill St., Mayfair, London; husband of Lady Arthur Hay (now Mrs. Robert Leatham).
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 5.
Cemetery: SOUPIR COMMUNAL CEMETERY

ADP · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 466 Location: Edinburgh

Memorial: Yester Parish War Memorial, Gifford
Location: outside Yester Parish Church, Gifford
Address: Main Street, Gifford, East Lothian EH41 4QH
OS Grid Ref.: NT535681
See on map: click here
UKNIWM No.: <not listed>

From The Scotsman 26 March 1921.

WAR MEMORIALS

YESTER PARISH.— A Celtic cross, composed of Craikland stone, in memory of 18 men of Yester Parish, East Lothian, has been unveiled at Gifford by General Sir Francis Davies, of Scottish Command. There was a large attendance. There were also representatives of the local Comrades and the Boy Scouts. The Marquis of Tweeddale, in introducing Sir Francis Davies, said he hoped that the memorial would be an example to all future generations, reminding them what the noble men whose names were engraved thereon had died for, and that Britain would prove worthy of these sacrifices. Sir Francis Davies said that he had unveiled a great many memorials in different parts of the country, but he had always considered that the kind which touched him most was such as in a small parish like Gifford, where the heroes had been known to the people from their youth upwards. He alluded to the utter devastation of the Somme area, which in many respects was not unlike East Lothian, and impressed upon those at home what the Germans would have perpetrated in this country had they succeeded in landing. Having unveiled the memorial, the names of the fallen were read by the Marquis of Tweeddale, followed by the sounding of the "Last Post." Several wreaths were placed on the memorial.

I suggest this topic is re-named to Yester Parish, Gifford, East Lothian.

ADP

Adam Brown · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:56 pm Post subject: