I wonder what my great-grandfather Archibald McChristie Muir would have thought about the original monument. He was a miner in the neighbouring village of Plean, and had served in the 7th Gordon Highlanders in ww1.
Fantastic video. The Bruce literally popping up was a highlight for me. Well researched and informative, then bringing a little humour to a heavy topic was a stroke of genius.
Great to see the newspaper articles featured in this video readily available. Archival of the sort is such an overlooked aspect of preserving history, you never know when something as seemingly mundane as an opinion piece from a century ago will be relevant to an areas history. No better place for contemporary history than a piece of paper with it all written down as it was happening!
The Treaty of Versailles which officially ended the war was signed in 1919, so a lot of memorials take 1919 as the end of the war since before that it was technically a ceasefire.
I grew up near Stirling in Dunblane & even our war memorial looks better than that. The one in Dunblane is much larger & is situated across the River Allan facing the Cathedral. Most named on there were Black watch as Dunblane came under Perthshire back in the day. Saw a few other cap badges like Royal Artillery which i served in on there. Was also some Royal Scots soldiers named on there too.
