The Scottish War Memorials Project

spoons · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: Brydekirk

UKNIWM Ref: 5883

OS Map Ref: NY 183 705

spoons · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject:

I was in Dumfries museum photographing memorials recently and my contact produced a number of certificates from storage. Here is one that I have managed to trace to a name on the Brydekirk memorial.

It does not seem to be the same as the certificate that accompanied the 'Death Penny', at least the ones that I have seen. Any idea of the purpose or circumstances of its issue? There are a couple of others, the same but in different frames.

DerekR · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:55 am Post subject:

Paul,
That is a memorial scroll. Each name was individually added by a calligrapher and they are fascinating pieces of work.
Scrolls to senior officers etc showed better calligraphy than to the "ranks" - the task of adding names to these scrolls were given to the junior calligraphers.
All the students at the London School of Arts and Crafts were taught by the same man, Grailly Hewitt, who taught them how to write in this style - based on the Fifteenth Century Italian Manuscripts.
The vast majority of the scrolls were completed within two years and the school received the princely sum of 1 1/2d (1.5 old pennies) per scroll from the Government.

The "Slip" of paper which arrived inside the plaque box was mass produced with a facsimile signature of the King and an embossed Coat-of-Arms on it. Basic but collectable.
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Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject:

VIVERS, JOHN
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 27/10/1915
Additional information: Son of William and Mary Vivers, of Manse Crescent, Brydekirk, Annan, Dumfriesshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sp. Mem. B. 158.
Cemetery: REDOUBT CEMETERY, HELLES

Listed on the Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre War Memorial in Moray House, Edinburgh.
The EPTC trained teachers.

Adam
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