8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial

Written by Mike
The 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial at Beaumont-Hamel is in the form of a Celtic cross.  It was unveiled in 1923 by the Duke of Argyll, 29 April 2002.  (Ref 02-29-03) The 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial at Beaumont-Hamel is in the form of a Celtic cross. It was unveiled in 1923 by the Duke of Argyll, 29 April 2002. (Ref 02-29-03)

The 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial is constructed almost on the site of their battalion headquarters at the time of the capture of Beaumont-Hamel. The position is close to the Sunken Road and the signal for the attack was the second blowing of a mine under Hawthorn Ridge.

The 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial is in the form of a Celtic cross.  It was unveiled in 1923 by the Duke of Argyll. 

The 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial lists details of the actions of the 8th Argyllshire Battalion, Princess Louise's Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, the 51st Highland Division, the 61st Division, and the 15th Scottish Division.

The 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial notes that during service in the field (from 1 May 1915 until the end of the war) 51 officers and 831 NCOs and men were killed.  105 officers and 2,527 NCOs and men were wounded. 

A Gaelic inscription on the memorial reads "friends are good on the day of the battle".

The 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial is located 0.5km north west of Beaumont-Hamel on the north side of the D163 road to Mailly-Maillet adjacent to Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery and close to the Hawthorn Ridge mine crater.

Mike

Mike

Mike McCormac has been a photographer since about ten years old.  He's a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and lives in a village in the hills near Paphos in Cyprus.

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