ALYTH

Monument front with remembrance wall behind. - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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Left side plaque. - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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Front plaque - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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Right side plaque. - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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Memorial wall behind memorial itself. - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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In memoriam, below front plaque. - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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Bronze statue atop memorial. - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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Rear plaque - Taken by AllanB 15 Jul 2019

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Elevation and sculpture of Victory or Peace - Taken by Andrew McMaster 04 Aug 2020

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Elevation and sculpture of Victory or Peace - Taken by Andrew McMaster 04 Aug 2020

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Dedication plaque - Taken by Andrew McMaster 04 Aug 2020

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Reference WMO/146653

Address:

Airlie Street/Meigle Road junction

Alyth

PH11 8EX

Scotland

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Status: On original site

Type: Freestanding

Location: External

Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace

Description: Figure sculpture

Materials:

Metal Bronze
Stone Stone (any)

Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)
Second World War (1939-1945)
Falklands Conflict (1982)

About the memorial: Figure of Minerva holding sword in one hand and Winged Victory on the other. She is knelt upon a tapering stone built cenotaph like plinth/column holding metal plaques with WW1 names & inscriptions. There is a further plaque supported by an elaborate scroll with WW2 names. Very long description available in IWM Register entry. Sculptor: William Kellock Brown

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Unveiled by the Earl of Airlie on July 9th 1922 and dedicated by the Rev'd James Meikle, the Minister of the Parish.
The smaller winged figure is the goddess of Victory Nike, clearly modelled off the famous Hellenistic sculpture of Nike named ‘Winged Victory of Samothrace’ which is now in the Louvre; Victory depicted here mutilated and battered probably to reflect and question the worth of the conflict.

The larger figure is unlikely to be Britannia, as she is generally shown with a Spartan helmet and trident and this figure is holding a sword. We have no further records with information about who she could be. Please find an attached helpsheet on researching war memorials that may be some use.

Extract from the Revd James Meikle’s book ‘Places & Place-Names Round Alyth 1925 IN THE arresting War Memorial, by Mr. Kellock Brown, Sculptor, Glasgow, which stands at the corner of the Muir, there is much to be seen; the following extract from the Alyth Guardian will help to suggest ideas and to increase appreciation: “What is meant by the figures of the monument? What are the ideas intended to be conveyed especially by the larger figure? It is evident that the whole statue is full of symbolism, and that the sculptor has presented not an ordinary commonplace but a rare piece of statuary. It challenges thought. “Is it the Goddess of Victory that looks towards the town? If so, it breaks with the past conceptions. No longer, not now, with lips curled with contempt, arrogant, vibrant with the pride of human achievement and the elation of personal triumph, but with a face of intense thought, of profound concern, removed from grief, yet seeming to realise the cost of victory in human lives. Or is it the face of the Goddess of Peace that steadily looks upon the present traffic of living men, and will look upon the generations that follow? If so, then she seems to be still weighing vital issues – perchance that her power is threatened in the future that she cranes forward to pierce. The face is strikingly arrestive, and in no part of the sculptuory has the artist been more successful. The more one looks at it the more one comes under its spell. It stirs, it holds one. “In the conception of the statue, be it the genius of victory or peace, there are other significant meanings. In its half-kneeling posture, the figure suggests a success wrested, when almost beaten down, from a deadly adversary. On the left there is a sheathed sword, the handle ungrasped, the scabbard piercing the ground and wreathed with its sling – now the emblem of disuse. On the right side is a small round shield, the boss outermost, resting on the ground and against the drapery of the figure. In the reversed position of these arms there is an obvious meaning. It contrasts with the alert poise of Minerva, the Goddess of War in classic art, with ready spear in the right and shield in the left hand. “The Goddess offers in her right hand the smaller figure of a victory, standing lightly upon an orb representing the earth. It is a winged piece, its moulding delicate, from the brow to the feet, tense, vivid, depicting radiant youth and life, and the glory of its errand, as with outstretched wings it eagerly flies abroad proclaiming its message – Victory. The victory after 1914-1919. Alas! one sees its mutilated arm – the right is only a stump. Victory? Yes! After loss, deprivation, mutilation. If one is drawn to look and look again at the face of the older figure, one closes one’s eyes in inward pain at that awful token of the ravages of war borne in the flesh of living men and in the broken hopes of women and children. “The square pedestal upon which the statue rests is severe in its simplicity, and, in approaching the site with the background of muir and trees, is suggestive of just proportion and symmetry. “Alyth has reason to be proud of its Memorial. It possesses the charm of the choicest statuary, an element of mystery, a spirit which baffles and which satisfies, which eludes and which surrenders meaning, and it is perhaps typified best in that face which, seen as it was in failing light in a patter of rain, tells us that with the crown of victory there is in a mystical sense the cross of sacrifice… “The public Authority entrusted with its custody have in their charge a worthy remembrance of the fallen. May they and their successors care for and cherish it as a sacred trust.”

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'IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THIS DISTRICT WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'

Names:

THE ROYAL NAVY Eng. Lieut. Commander Wm H Cleghorn H B Hugh Grant RND H G A B John Grant RND A B Davidson Morris RND THE ARMY Major A B Higgon Chevalier of the Legion of Honour Captain Herbert S Cleghorn Captain The Hon Partick Ogilvy MC Lieut. Archibald Denroche-Smith Second Lieut. Allan J Cleghorn Coy. Sergt. Major George Millar Sergt. W MacDonald Sergt. Peter Mitchell MM Corporals: G Y Edward James Ferrier John Honey William Low Alexander MacDonald William McPherson William A Mitchell Lieutenant Corporals: Robert Anderson Thomas Henderson Alexander Melville James P Meechie John Sinclair John T Tasker Robert Watson Privates: John Adam Andrew Anderson Charles Anderson David M Anderson Robert Angus James Bain Laurence De Bono James F Brown Thomas Cargill James P Carruthers Alexander Clark Charles Clark Alexander Cochrane George Corbett William Coventry George Cram Donald Davidson William Denholm Thomas Dickson William Doig Alexander Duff James Fearn Robert Ferguson William Ferguson Robert Finlay Thomas Fraser David H Galloway William Galloway William Graham James Gray Arthur Guthrie Robert Haggart Robert M Hastie John Henderson Andrew Hendry Robert Howie John Kidd James Leslie John Lowdon George McKiddie Thomas Mands Edward Martin George Melville Archibald Milne James Milne John Morris Alexander Nelson Robert B Newton James L Nicholson James Ogilvy Robert B Oram Alexander Reid William J Reid William Robb David Robertson William Rollo George M Ross James Shanks James Shaw William Sidey James Silver Alexander Smith John Smith Robert Smith Fred Soutar W M Spalding Donald Stewart James Stewart Charles Sturrock William Sturrock Andrew W Symington Alexander K Thomson James Tod James Whyte William Whyte George Wilson James Wilson Thomas Wood AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Pte. Thomas Fleming Pte. Angus W Mitchell CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Lieut. David Gibson Coy. Sergt. Mjr. Charles M Whyte Cpl. Alexander Smith Privates: Robert Brown George B Brown John McPherson John G Reid David Robb Robert Shaw H Smart John Wilkie NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Pte. Robert Shanks

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