A special service to mark 100 years of the Cenotaph has been help in George Square.
Led by the Lord Provost, Jacqueline McLaren, the service features singing by the West of Scotland Military Wives Choir and a reading of a poem written by a second world war soldier from Glasgow.
The Lord Provost, remembered her great grandfather, Allan Hannah McIlvennie, who served with the Cameron Highlanders during the First World War. He lost his life at the notorious ‘bloody’ Battle of the Somme on 23 July 1916.
She said: “Today is an important and poignant service. Reflecting on war, its cost and all those lost in conflicts.”
The Cenotaph was commissioned by Lord Provost Sir James Watson Stewart, who chaired a newly established War Memorial Committee back in 1920. it was agreed a public memorial should be placed in George Square.
It was unveiled 100 years ago by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, who commanded the First World War’s British Expeditionary Force.
The poem ‘Armistice Day’, penned by Glaswegian William Hamilton, was read by Royal Conservatoire drama student, Lewis McDougall.
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