Location
The Square opposite the Town Hall Inverurie
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
Date
1921
Description
A war memorial of the figurative type with a life size statue of a soldier of a Highland regiment. It commemorates the dead from both World War I & II. It was unveiled on 20 September 1921. It has a tapering rectangular base of rough hewn granite with the name plaques of World War I set in the front and sides. Above the front plaque is carved a wreath behind which are a crossed rifle and sabre. Surmounting it is a statue of a kilted soldier in battledress with a rifle in his right hand resting on its butt. The memorial stands on a three-step base, the centre one of which has the names of the dead from World War II carved into three sides.
Era
1900s
Categories
Iconography
- human figure
- laurel wreath
- sword
Photographer
- David Watson Hood
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