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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Sculptor was Henry Price (from UKNIWM)
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:06 am Post subject: |
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2Lt Hastings Duncan Barbour RAF served with 102 Sqn as an observer. He was killed in action along with his pilot Lt E H Kann on 21st October 1917 and is buried at Roulers, France. They were flying in FE2b serial A5678.
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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 939 Location: near Arbroath Angus
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: 2nd Lt Hastings Duncan Barbour , 102 Sqn RFC |
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Airmen died in the Great War 1914 -1918 : RFC pages 21
BARBOUR , 2Lt Hastings Duncan , 102 Sqn RFC , obs, kia 21 Oct 1917 , Buried at Roulers, France
page 62 :
KANN, Lieut Edward Henry , 102 Sqn RFC, Pilot , (L N Lancs Regiment ), Native of Bayswater , London , aged 21 , Kia 21 Oct 1917 , Buried at Roulers, Belgium .
page 258: RFC casualties on 21 October 1917 :
Lieut E H Kann and 2nd Lieut H D Barbour , 102 Sqn RFC , Kia in FE2b no A5678 , Western Front .
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The Sky their Battlefield : Western Front : October 1917:
21st October 1917 (pages 240 and 241 ) a lot of casualties in the RFC that day:
A5678 FE2b 102Sqn RFC:
** Night Bombing Operations left 5.05pm down East of lines , Missing in Action (Lieut EH Kann Killed in action ) / 2nd Lieut HD Barbour Killed in action ) probably to BISSEGHEM A'dr
All three night boming squadrons were operating on the final evenings before the battle , typically bombing aerodromes , rail stations and transport .
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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spoons wrote: | Sculptor was Henry Price (from UKNIWM)
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Do we know anymore about Henry Price? _________________
Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. |
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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DerekR wrote: | spoons wrote: | Sculptor was Henry Price (from UKNIWM)
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Do we know anymore about Henry Price? |
All I know is he also did the Annan memorial and he came from London.
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ADP
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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From The Scotsman Thursday 25th December 1919.
WAR MEMORIAL FOR MAXWELLTOWN
The burgh of Maxwelltown has decided to erect at a cost of £700 a memorial to the fallen service men of the district. The base of the memorial will be an obelisk of grey granite, on which will be erected the figure of a King's Own Scottish Borderer, in a falling attitude, with outstretched arms, forming a cross.
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teddy
Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 214 Location: Penpont, Dumfriesshire
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject: Henry Price |
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Henry Price, was a Welshman, and worked in London.
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:52 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Teddy, UKNIWM just records 'from London'.
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:20 am Post subject: |
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ADP wrote: |
at a cost of £700 a memorial to the fallen service men of the district.
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£700 was money well spent for a memorial of this quality when you consider what was being spent elsewhere on the "mass produced" statues. _________________
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Name: GLOVER, ALEXANDER MILLIGAN THOMASON
Initials: A M T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Flying Corps
Unit Text: 70th Sqdn.
Secondary Regiment: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Secondary Unit Text: and
Date of Death: 17/08/1917
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Memorial: ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Killed in action in Camel B2319 - he may have been shot down by Ltn d R Johannes Wintrath - putting 'camel b2319' into google brings a few interesting results. He is also listed on the Colvend memorial.[/url] |
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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When I was standing next to this memorial the other day I noticed that it is coated with some sort of matt brown paint. I think it is bronze underneath (both the statue and the 2 panels).
It seems to have been a few years ago at least - I have known this memorial for 5 years and it has always been brown but I never really noticed before. I took a few close up shots which show the verdigris underneath.
It seems a shame to cover up beutiful bronze patina and age like this.
Anyone have any information or thoughts?
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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spoons wrote: | I noticed that it is coated with some sort of matt brown paint. I think it is bronze underneath (both the statue and the 2 panels) |
Dornoch War Memorial was painted a few years ago. It was given a gloss rather than matt finish. Jim McGinlay identified it as a polyeurethane wet-look paint.
It seems to be a cheap way of refurbishing a bronze statue. Luckily Dornoch was refurbished more recently to its original glory.
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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I wish they'd do something with Canonbie as the extreme weathering, although very atmospheric, means that the figure is actually in danger of breaking down.
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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DerekR wrote: | I wish they'd do something with Canonbie as the extreme weathering, although very atmospheric, means that the figure is actually in danger of breaking down.
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Thanks for the heads-up. I have reported this to the War Memorials Trust so hopefully they will look in to it.
Back to this memorial - I have submitted a condition report to the War Memorials Trust to highlight the brown paint though I fear it may prove too expensive to remove in the curent financial..........blah, blah, blah
The Maxwelltown memorial is one of the memorials featured in Derek Boorman's book ' A century of Remembrance - One hundred outstanding British War Memorials.' It also features on the front cover of 'At the Going down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials' by the same author.
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Kenneth Morrison
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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One of the "later additions" to the memorial has an interesting military history
Name: GREEN, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant (Drummer)
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 36
Date of Death: 28/08/1914
Service No: 8878
Additional information: Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of Robert Green (Serjt. 93rd Highlanders, Crimean and Indian Mutiny Veteran); husband of Margaret H. Browning Green, of Dumfries and Kilmarnock. Served on the Punjab Frontier with 2nd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1897-8.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. D. 1.
Cemetery: CAUDRY BRITISH CEMETERY
Caudry town was the scene of part of the Battle of Le Cateau on the 26th August 1914.........
SNWM has
Surname GREEN
Firstname Robert
Service Number 8878
Date Death 24/11/1914
Decoration
Place of birth Kirkcudbright
Other 2nd Bn. formerly 4922 A. & S.H.
SNWM roll THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Rank Sgt/Dr
Note the dates of death _________________ Ken |
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