Labour Corps WWI National Memorial Window

  • Labour Corps window - Taken by dhubthsigh (Mark Duffy) for Scottish War Memorials Project 25 Apr 2007

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Reference WMO/153496

Address:

Former Riverside Methodist Church

Boat Brae / Riverside Road

Rattray

Blairgowrie

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Stained glass window
Materials:
  • Glass Stained Glass
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Four Light Stained Glass Window with tracery, in the town which was their Headquarters during WW1, and the building where thousands of them sought retreat and a pleasant social centre. DESCRIPTION OF THE WINDOW The tracery contains, in the middle of the upper part, the emblems of the passion of our Lord, against a ruby background - the ladder, the column and the whip, the spear and the sponge, and the three nails. Below, in the centre, is the crown of thorns, surmounting a cross and resting upon the cup. These may be taken as a symbol of the suffering and endurance of the Labour men, as followers of their Saviour. The rest of the tracery contains figures of angels against a blue ground. These are holding scrolls with the words “Laborare est honore” and “Laborare est orare” Two smaller tracery lights contain the Union Jack on a shield, and the badge of the Labour Corps, with its motto “Labor omnia vincit” Then come the four main lights. In the upper portion of each, in the pointed head of the light is a half-length young angel, holding a scroll with the name of the figure shown below:- St. George for courage St. Paul for endurance The Patriarch Job for fortitude, and General Gordon for self-sacrifice Below each of these is a small square panel, containing a soldier in khaki forcing his way through a wood of thorns, intertwined with a scroll, upon which is an appropriate inscription:- 1. “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then had they swallowed us up alive”. 2. “These are they which came out of great tribulation”. 3. “My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it is also gone from me. In thee, O Lord, do I hope”. 4. “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith”. Below these, again, are four small panels inserted in the border - sun, frost, rain, tempest, and below all the inscriptions:- “AND THEIR NAME LIVETH TO ALL GENERATIONS”. Around the soldier panels are border patterns made of the three nails, a cross, a star and the crown of thorns. Between them, on a ruby band which separates the main figures from the lower soldier panels is the Dedication of the Window:- “TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING IN THE LABOUR CORPS IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18” and at each side of the main panels is a border made up of ruby quarries with a silver flame, these symbolise prayers arising upwards, and between the ruby quarries are panels with the Thistle for Scotland. On the silver white background of the principal figures are quarries containing St. Andrew’s cross and the emblem of labour. Coats of arms of Great Britain and the Colonies are placed irregularly, on red band, above and below the principal figures.
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