Category Archives: Highlands

Strathdearn War Memorial

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

Posted in Highlands, Scotland, U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries - Back in Blighty | 6 Comments

Dulnain Bridge War Memorial

Posted in Highlands, Scotland, U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries - Back in Blighty | 11 Comments

Strathspey & District War Memorial

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

Posted in Highlands, Scotland, U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries - Back in Blighty | 11 Comments

Invermoriston War Memorial

A study in where not to place your war memorial. Or where not to place your roadsigns,… …although it is always handy knowing where the loos are.

Posted in Highlands, Scotland, U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries - Back in Blighty | 6 Comments

Inverness – The Highland Railway Company Roll of Honour

On the wall of what is now the domain of a purveyor of kilts, just outside the entrance to Inverness railway station, in the same little square where we looked at the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders memorial last post, there’s … Continue reading

Posted in Highlands, Scotland, U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries - Back in Blighty | 6 Comments

Inverness – The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders Memorial

This fine 19th Century memorial, nicely restored and re-inscribed in the 1990s, and thoroughly cleaned in 2014, stands in front of Inverness railway station. Intended to commemorate men who were killed in action or died of disease in Egypt and … Continue reading

Posted in Highlands, Scotland, U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries - Back in Blighty | 2 Comments

Kincraig War Memorial & the Battle of Atbara Memorial

Note there’s a second memorial just in front of the chapel, far left of shot. And here’s the memorial across the road. The Battle of Atbara took place on 8th April 1898 at the confluence of the Nile & Atbara … Continue reading

Posted in Highlands, Scotland, U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries - Back in Blighty | 6 Comments