![]() ![]() It helps us to remember that Private George Douglas of the Cameron Yes, the Commonwealth War Graves website is an astonishing place. Inspires, whatever evils it is intended to combat, is somehow noble or Tomorrows, don’t make our annual act of remembrance with anyĭelusions that war itself, whatever acts of heroism and courage it Astonishing in its monumental scopeĪnd, because it is dedicated to Remembering, harrowing in its content.Īnd we who acknowledge that our today owes so much to so many lost The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website is an astonishing Available from the Tay Valley Family History Society.Micah 4.1-5 Philippians 4.6-9 John 6.37-40 Gordon Small’s book The Newport-on-Tay and Wormit War Memorial gives full information on all those named on the memorial. Memorial plaques from both Wormit Churches (Bay Road and Riverside Road) are now located in Wormit Church. There is also a memorial window in St Mary’s Episcopal Church. There was another memorial window in St Fillan’s Church, but sadly it was lost when the church was demolished. There is also a beautiful memorial window there. In Newport Church of Scotland, there is the plaque commemorating their own members lost, but also now the plaques from Forgan, St Fillan’s and Trinity Churches. As churches have closed, and in some cases been demolished, some of these memorial plaques have been saved. ![]() In addition to these two principal memorials, most of the churches in the villages had their own memorial plaques. At Wormit, 13 names were added below those from World War I. At Newport, two new bronze plaques were placed on the surrounding wall facing the memorial, and 44 names were recorded there. World War IIĪfter World War II sadly more names had to be added to both memorials. The Wormit memorial, a wall plaque at the junction of Naughton Road and Mount Stewart Road, had been unveiled in December 1920. Wormit MemorialĪlthough the names of the Wormit men are recorded on the Newport memorial, in Wormit, as in so many villages across the country, they wanted their own memorial. 84 names were engraved on the memorial, names of young men from Newport, Wormit and Forgan. The memorial was unveiled on 2 September 1922 by Sir Ralph Anstruther, Lord Lieutenant of Fife. The memorial would be designed by Robert Lorimer, designer of the National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle. Finally, the present site overlooking the river was agreed. The first plan for a war memorial in Newport was actually for an artistic entrance porch to the Blyth Hall, and then another site at the top of Kilnburn steps was also rejected. Memorials would represent a focal point for remembrance both collectively and for individuals, particularly for those whose lost loved ones had no known grave, all too common in the Great War. In the aftermath of World War I, the British people needed a focus for their grief, their loss and their pride, and so war memorials were erected across the UK in a great wave of remembrance. So great was the sacrifice, and so large were the numbers lost, that it was felt that some sort of permanent recognition must be made. After World War I however it was different. Previous conflicts had produced some memorials certainly, but in a rather random and localised manner. World War I was the first conflict where the nation’s dead were systematically recorded on memorials throughout the country. Newport and Wormit War Memorials Remembrance
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