Yoker

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Reference WMO/71007

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Yoker Recreation Ground

Dumbarton Road

Yoker

G14 0YH

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Cairn
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The Yoker War Memorial is a rugged granite monument. The monument commemorates the fallen of WW1 (1914-1918) and consists of a tapering cairn of large blocks standing on a rubble plinth. The pillar stands approximately five metres high and is 4.5 metres wide at its base. The monument is protected by a base made up of granite boulders I.0 metres deep and 900mm high. The grey granite memorial consists of a tapering cairn of large blocks standing on a rubble plinth. Sixty names are inscribed in gold painted lettering on a black marble tablet placed at the base of the front face of the memorial. The memorial originally had a granite name tablet but this was replaced by the current one due to vandalism and erosion of the names.
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Incised in the stone at the top-1914-1918; On the Tablet- YOKER WAR MEMORIAL/ ROLL OF HONOUR (Names)/ IN SACRED MEMORY

Column 1- Major A W Rogerson A & S H/ Captain A N Drysdale MC HLI/ Captain C L Muirhead Tk Cr./ Lt E Yarrow A & S H / 2nd Lt C Coutts Mer. Mre./ 2nd Lt T McGhee C H/ 2nd Lt A Provan RAF/ Sgt A Cumming B W/ Sgt D McRae C H / Sgt D Wilson A & S H/ Cpl P McDougall R A S C/ Pt A Allan C H / P.O. 1st Cl. J W Bolden R N/ Pt W Brown R S / Pt S J Blanchard C H/ Engr D N Burnett Mer. Ser. / Pt R M Calderwood M G C/ Pt G Cowling R S/ Pt J B Cochrane A & S H/ Engr H Clement Mer. Mre./ Pt W Craig G H/ Pt J Craig G H/ Mech J F Crawford R A F/ Pt J Chambers R F A/ Gn J Chambers R F A/ Pt R Davidson A & S H/ Dri. C W Daldry R F A/ Pt F A Dewar R F/ Pt J Dickie R S B/ Engr G Fullerton Mer. Mre.; Column 2- Pt D Galbraith B W/ Pt C Gray H L I/ Pt A Horsburgh R H/ Engr J Hogg Mer. Ser./ Pt A E Incarfill A & S H/ Pt L Kettlewell S R/ Dri. J Kilpatrick R F A/ Pt J Lewis G H/ Pt A Mitchell H L I/ D Muir Mer. Ser./ Pt H Munro R S/ Pt C Muncall Tk. Cr./ Pt J McDiarmid A & S H/ Pt D McDonald H L I/ Pt J MacIntosh S C/ Pt J McLean C H/ Pt H McPherson M G C/ Pt R McPherson A & S H/ E J S Neal R N/ Pt J Noble S R/ Pt P O'Neill A & S H/ Pt G Rankin H L I/ Pt R Robertson B W/ Pt R Short G H/ H H A Stewart R N/ Pt W Stewart S H/ Pt J Talbot M G C/ Pt W Walker A & S H/ Pt A Waddell R W S/ Gn B White R F A/

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