ABSTRACT
In addition to plaques commemorating those members of their congregations who fell in the First and Second World Wars, Church of Scotland churches not infrequently have Rolls of Honour recording the names of all of those who served. They also possess some fine war memorial windows, a number of which, like the window at Killin, are dedicated 'to the glory of God and in grateful remembrance of the men of this district for their service and sacrifice in the cause of liberty in two world wars'. Among parishes represented by a memorial window and/or Roll of Honour, Rutherglen Old had the same incumbent from 1862 to 1908, Dean from 1879 until 1916, Falkirk Grahamston from 1881 until 1920, and Nairn Old from 1898 until 1931. In the 1939–1945 memorial at Kilbirnie Auld Kirk, a knight kneels before the Lord of Hosts in the garden (Gethsemane), the medieval appearance actualised only by a discreet Second World War-type service flash.
