New memorial

[Pirnmill]

The small village of Pirnmill on the Isle of Arran has a WW2 memorial(a granite column), but until today had no WW1 memorial. It has taken 8 years since I began the quest to have the men remembered and today over 80 people gathered together as we dedicated a WW1 memorial commemorating the 8 men from the village who died in the Great War.

 

Those whose names will now live for evermore in their village are Pte Duncan Robertson CEF died 25/4/1915; Pte John Stevenson 1st Bn HLI died 23/5/1915; Pte Ronald Robertson(Duncan's brother) and L/Cpl John Craig 9th Bn Black Watch died 25/9/1915; Pte James Thomson 8th Bn KOSB died 10/11/1915; Sgt James McCormack 1st Bn KOSB died 1/7/1916 and Merchant Seamen Robert Skillen died 13/6/1917 and Archibald McMillan died 7/5/1918.  2 of those men, James McCormack and John Stevenson are now commemorated for the very first time on a war memorial in this country.

 

The memorial was designed and fabricated in the village itself and I am delighted it is in place for the 100th anniversary of the end of the war.

[DavidOwen]

Well done!

[derekb]

An excellent memorial, well done. 

[daggers]

Congratulations.  Unusual but very effective design.

D

[TwoEssGee]

Well done, and great to see it covered on this afternoon's BBC1 Reporting Scotland news programme.

 

Iain

(from BWF, Arran, but resident on the big island for the time being)