Category Archives: U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries – Back in Blighty

Strathdearn War Memorial

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Magicfingers

Well, I have dragged it out as long as I can, but this is the final memorial from my pre-Covid Scottish trip. And an unusual style of memorial it is, too. There are thirty names on the Great War Roll … Continue reading →

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Betchworth – St. Michael’s Churchyard, War Memorial & War Memorial Hall

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Magicfingers

Another locked church, I’m afraid,… …but the war memorial makes our visit worthwhile. The panels of the memorial list twenty nine men killed in the Great War, with the names of eight Second World War casualties on the angled base … Continue reading →

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Wartling – St. Mary Magdalene Church

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Magicfingers
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Dulnain Bridge War Memorial

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Magicfingers
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Biscovey – St. Mary’s Church & Churchyard

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Magicfingers

Above & below: A man of the Seaforth Highlanders, the most northern of all the British regiments, remembered in a churchyard in Cornwall, the most southerly of all the counties. Private Harold George Louth, Seaforths, died on 9th May 1915 … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh Waverley Station – North British Railway Company Roll of Honour

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Magicfingers

From Highlands to Lowlands, and yep, those are platforms, and this is a terminus, and if you look to the left,… …you will see a Roll of Honour,… …with far too many names listed on it, and, before I forget, … Continue reading →

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Strathspey & District War Memorial

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Magicfingers

Grantown-on-Spey on a chilly spring day.  Poetry, that.  Although hardly in motion. Anyway, you’d assume that this stately Corinthian column is the Grantown-on-Spey war memorial,… …but according to the Imperial War Museum’s War Memorials Register, this is officially the Strathspey … Continue reading →

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