Helensburgh War Memorial

“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).” ― Otto von Bismarck.

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.” ― Laurence Binyon.

Although the war in Europe filled the pages of the national papers with much speculation, life for most, in Helensburgh, went on as before. .

WELCOME TO THE

HELENSBURGH WAR MEMORIAL WEBSITE

WORLD WAR 1

memorial words This project has been funded by the National Lottery ‘World War I: then and now’ programme.

This website has been developed by the Friends of Hermitage Park with a grant from the National Lottery ‘First World War : then and now’ funding programme.

It is impossible not to be moved by the list of 206 names carved in granite.

The project, ’Helensburgh War Memorial Families Project’, set out to find out about the lives of the WW I casualties named on the cenotaph located in Hermitage Park.

Any further information is welcome and may be added to the site in future.

LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

Images of WW1

Friends of Hermitage Park

Helensburgh War Memorial