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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject: Women statues on war memorials |
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Having noticed a resemblance between the statues used on Stromness and Ullapool war memorials I was wondering if anyone can think of other Scottish memorials which use a statue of a woman?
Note: I'm not thinking of winged Victory figures since there are quite a few of them. It is statues of women without wings I am looking for.
Here are three to start the list:
Halkirk War Memorial, Caithness
Stromness War Memorial, Orkney
Ullapool War Memorial, Wester Ross
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kinnethmont
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Fraserburgh
_________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Jim
That's great thanks, that's just what I'm after.
Cheers
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ADP
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 9:35 am Post subject: |
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The Halkirk one you mention above has a text below it specifically referring to the women and children left behind.
gentle peace returning,
Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless,
And mony a widow mourning
from When Wild War's Deadly Blast Was Blawn by Burns.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/when_wild_wars_deadly_blast_was_blawn/ for the full song.
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