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Newcastleton Village War Memorial.
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Description
The war memorial in the centre of the village square in a small border village dedicated "To the memory of the men of Liddesdale who gave their lives for thei country in the Great War 1914-1918 and whose names are inscribes here with reverence and gratitude for their noble devotion and sacrifice."
A touching memorial in the form of a Scottish Borders soldier, probably from the Kings Own Scottish Borderers who raised a detachment from the valley.
Location
Newcastleton, Roxburghshire, Scotland. April 2005
