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Clyne War Memorial
Submitted by Elizabeth Ritchie on 12 November 2012 - 1:47pm
Revised: 13 November 2012 - 11:03am — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Williamina Matheson WAAC
"Their dust is in the desert and the deep
And yet, triumphant o'er the grave, their spirits never sleep
But guard the freedom which they died to save"
Date:
25th December 1822
Material:
Clock tower, stone
Location:
South Brae (A9)
Brora
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Additional information:
She is buried in Clyne New Burial Ground, also known as Brora Cemetery, Clyne in Grave number E.630.
Williamina also had two brothers – Alexander, Royal Engineers and Thomas, Cameron Highlanders who were both killed in the war.
She also had a brother-in-law who also died in the war.
Williamina Matheson
Submitted by Elizabeth Ritchie on 12 November 2012 - 1:47pm
Revised: 13 November 2012 - 10:51am — admin
Other names:
Ina
Dates:
born c. 1891, d. 1920
MATHESON, Williamina ‘Ina’
Rank: Worker
Regimental Number: 39977
Unit: Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Died: Tubercular Peritonitis 5.2.20. Dalchalm
Age: 29
Parents: Thomas Matheson (plasterer) and Elspeth 'Elsie' (Sutherland) Matheson of Greenhill, Dalchalm, Brora
Home: Dalchalm
Job: Car Conductress, Portobello – Edinburgh Trams
Enlisted: 29.5.1918
Discharged: 3.5.1919 Medically unfit
Buried: Buried in Brora Cemetery.
Memorials: Listed on the Clyne War Memorial, along with her brothers Alexander and Thomas
Listed on the Clyne United Free Church War Memorial, Brora
Gold postbox to Katherine Grainger
Submitted by Alison McCall on 10 November 2012 - 7:42am
Revised: 4 December 2013 - 12:31pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
This post box has been painted
gold by Royal Mail to celebrate
Katherine Grainger
Gold Medal winner
London 2012 Olympic Games
Rowing: Women's Double Sculls
Erected by:
Royal Mail
Date:
August 2012
Material:
Metal and gold paint
Location:
Castlegate
Castle Street
Aberdeen, AB11 5BB
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Katherine Grainger
Submitted by Alison McCall on 10 November 2012 - 7:42am
Revised: 11 August 2016 - 6:05pm — Margaret Fergus...
Dates:
Born 12 Nov 1975
Born in 1975 in Glasgow, Katherine Grainger has won medals at four consecutive Olympic Games; silver in 2000, 2004 and 2008, and gold at the 2012 London Olympics.
She was created an MBE in 2006.
In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games Katherine won a silver medal in the double skulls with Victoria (Vicky) Thornley.
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Gravestone of Elizabeth Crombie Duthie
Submitted by Alison McCall on 10 November 2012 - 7:31am
Revised: 10 November 2012 - 7:33am — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
To the Memory of Elizabeth Crombie Duthie of Ruthrieston who died at Aberdeen on the 30th March 1885 aged 67.
Her best and most enduring memorial is the park she gave to her fellow citizens.
Material:
Granite
Location:
St Nicholas churchyard, Aberdeen
Union Street
Aberdeen , AB10 1JZ
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Stone Plaque in Memory of Mrs Bramwell Booth
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 6 November 2012 - 6:31pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
THIS STONE WAS LAID FOR
"THE GLORY OF GOD"
BY
MRS BRAMWELL BOOTH
OF THE SALVATION ARMY
FEBRUARY 6TH 1911
Date:
6th February, 1911
Material:
stone
Location:
on the corner of the former Salvation Army Women's Hostel at the foot of the Vennel Steps
West Port, Grassmarket
Edinburgh, EH1 2HU
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Additional information:
NGR NT 25297 73281
Mrs Bramwell Booth
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 6 November 2012 - 6:31pm
Revised: 7 November 2012 - 3:41pm — admin
Title:
Lieutenant, then Captain Florence Eleanor Soper
Other names:
nee Florence Eleanor Soper, Florrie for short, Mrs William Bramwell Booth
Dates:
12th September 1861 – 10th June 1957
Florence was born in Blaina, Monmouthshire, South Wales on 12th September 1861. Her parents were Isobel Soper, a Doctor, and Jenny Levick. She had two sisters and a brother, all younger. When she was 9 years old her mother died and she lived with one of her aunts until her father remarried. She was a gifted musician and had an active childhood.
Florence joined the Salvation Army in 1880 and worked alongside Bramwell's sister Catherine in France.
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Emma Caird or Marryat
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 November 2012 - 5:24pm
Revised: 13 November 2012 - 10:48am — admin
Dates:
1849-1927
Emma Grace Caird was born 23 August 1849, the youngest daughter of wealthy mill owner Edward Caird and his second wife Grace Caw. Emma had a close sibling relationship with her elder half-brother, James (later Sir James) Caird, with whom she traveled extensively.
In 1892, aged 43, Emma married Lt Col Herbert Marryat of the Manchester Regiment. Their only daughter, Grace Lois Caird Marryat died in infancy in 1893.
Plaque to Emma Caird (or Marryat)
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 November 2012 - 5:24pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Emma Caird or Marryat
Public Benefactor
1849-1927
Erected by:
Dundee Women's Trail
Designed by:
Su Nicoll
Date:
2008
Material:
Bronze with blue enamel
Location:
Caird Hall
City Square
Dundee, DD1 3BB
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Additional information:
This is no. 25 on the Dundee Women's Trail.
Mary Slessor Place, Oldmeldrum
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 November 2012 - 4:28pm
Revised: 11 November 2012 - 1:54pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Location:
Mary Slessor Place
Mary Slessor Place
Oldmeldrum , AB51 0FW
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Additional information:
Mary Slessor's mother, Mary Mitchell, was born in Kirk Street, Oldmeldrum, on 31 May 1831. The house she was born in was demolished in the 1960s.
