List of Memorial Plaques at Spean Bridge December 2008

I have now completed the inventory of the Plaques at the Memorial which I attach. I have to go back up to the Memorial check the list against the Plaques. If anyone wants me to do a search for a special Plaque PM me.
I am going to do a search of the surrounding area just in case there are any of the missing Plaques there.

Bill Harvey

Bill, this must have taken you ages and I bet you got at least slightly wet. Thanks ever so much for your efforts, at least if I get anymore concerned families calling I will have a clear reference to what is there.

All the very best.

Geoff

Bill ,your a star Good on ya mate

Ive only just found out that the memorial garden at Spean Bridge had been vandalised so this weekend I visited the site to see if the plaque that my familly placed there for my Dad was still there, I would like to thank Bill for his efforts in listing the plaques. And thank the people who restored the garden.
Its a sorry state the country is in when damage to famillies last acknolwgements to past heros is deliberatly vandalised.

Regards Bill More and family.

Bill

That is no bother. It was all I could do as I live in Oban only about 50 minutes from the memorial.

Best wishes.

Bill

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Bill More wrote:I
Its a sorry state the country is in when damage to famillies last acknolwgements to past heros is deliberatly vandalised.

Regards Bill More and family.

Totally agree with you Bill ...there was a time when an event like the desecration of a war memorial would of been a national outrage, when i hear of tatters pinching the names for the copper and brass and the memorials being stripped out of old building as they are refurbished and being chucked ,,,,makes my blood boil ..

all the best to you and a big thanks to Bill Harvey

Dear all,

My name is Jooske and I'm from the Netherlands. This is my first post and probably will be one of my last, as I do not really have any link or connection with the topics discussed on this forum...

However, I decided to sign up to post this reply when I was surfing and came across your moving posts about the Spean Bridge Memorial. My partner and I recently returned from our holiday to Scotland, and were ourselves deeply impressed by the memorial. When travelling we often stop at WWI and WWII graveyards, landmarks, and monuments such as this all over the world, to pay our respects and to commemorate.

While visiting the Spean Bridge memorial I made a couple of photos of the Remembrance Circle and stuck them together to make a panorama of it and the surroundings.

I would like to share (a smaller version of) it here with you. If you click on it or follow this link http://www.onze-wereld-site.nl/download/image003.jpg you will find a slightly bigger version. Sorry I couldn't get it any bigger, it refuses to show otherwise!

The full-sized panorama (8.36MB) is available, as are the original photo's, and a couple of pictures of the Memorial itself, if you're interested - just send me a pm to let me know and I'll gladly send them to you!

Sorry for "intruding" like this, just something I wanted to share... ;-)

Kind regards,
Jooske

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I would like to thank Jooske, a tourist from Holland, who took some very good photos of the Remembrance Garden at Spean Bridge. She has kindly sent me all of her photos some of which I have placed in an album in the gallery. I hope she will forgive me for cropping some of them to highlight the plaques and other items of remembrance. Her pictures are high quality and can be zoomed to read many of the plaques :

http://www.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/Commando+Memorials+and+plaques/

Thanks Jooske.

I have just returned from a visit to Scotland. My father was a Commando during the war and I really wanted to see the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge...I must say, it moved me to tears. What a bed autiful tribute. I could almost feel my dad beside me looking up to Ben Nevis and I felt so proud. It is a beautiful place that everyone should try to visit and the Commando museum at the hotel. I wish my father could have seen this. He died in 1985. This website would have made him so happy too. I am sure he would have known some of the names and faces. Thank you so much for this website.

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Hello Jackie

Thank you very much for your compliments of the web site it is much
appreciated.

The Spean Bridge memorial is a very awe inspiring place and a worthy tribute to the Commando forces.

Have you attended the remembrance week-end gathering there?..........it's a very moving and fitting tribute.......maybe you will join us there sometime in the future.........you are very welcome.

Best regards

John M