New Year's Day ceremony at Clyne parish memorial honours the Fallen
A SUTHERLAND community has held its traditional New Year’s Day wreath laying ceremony.
A wreath is laid in memory of the Fallen on January 1 every year at Clyne parish war memorial in Brora.
The ceremony is organised by the Friends of Clyne War Memorial Association (FoCWMA), who invite people with a family connection to the war memorial to lay the wreath.
On this occasion it was the turn of Elaine Anderson and her three children, Carl, Katie and Kyle.
Elaine’s great-grandmother Elsie Matheson unveiled the memorial plaque at the original dedication ceremony on Christmas Day 1922.
Mrs Matheson and her husband Thomas lost a daughter, two sons and a son-in-law during World War I - the biggest loss suffered by a single family in the parish.
To mark the centenary of the war memorial, FoCWMA have installed two new interpretation panels at the memorial.
