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Adam Brown

Winchburgh & Niddry War Memorial
Location: Memorial Gardens. Beside junction of Main Street (B9080) and Niddry Road (B8020).
OS Ref: NT 088 750
Sculptor: Alan Herriot

A relatively recent memorial for this community, only dating from 2001. The design is quite different to other recently raised memorials.
The statue represents an early 19th Century Drummer Boy. The figure is quite small but is life-size for a boy.

Unfortunately the gardens in front of the memorial seem to be the local dog toilet and I had to tread carefully to take these photographs.

There's no obvious artist's mark on the sculpture but Alan Herriot from Howgate in Midlothian was the artist responsible for the Drummer Boy.
Note from this photograph how the cairn has been built around the base of the sculpture and it looks like his bare feet are standing on the cairn.

This war memorial has also been discussed on the Winchburgh thread on the Scottish War Memorials Forum.

Adam