PICTURES: Poignant service held to mark centenary of Dornoch War Memorial

Dornoch marked the centenary of its war memorial last Friday with a poignant service led by Rev Canon James Currall.

P6-7 pupils from Dornoch Primary School and S1-2 pupils from Dornoch Academy were piped to the monument at mid-morning by Cody Thompson and Cameron Lyon.

A short history of the memorial was given by members of the Young Curators Club at the town's Historylinks Museum, before a prayer and the reading of Psalm 23 by Jane Mackay.

Derrick McAskill played The Sands of Kuwait, a pipe tune composed to commemorate the involvement of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Highlanders in the Gulf War.

The two-minute silence followed, after which wreaths were laid.

Rev Currall read the names of all 100 people on the memorial while pupils planted a wooden cross for each around the rose beds.

Prayers of commemoration and rededication were read followed by the Act of Commitment and a blessing.

The young people were piped back to school.

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