Two brothers who fought in World War I were honoured at a special ceremony in Moray yesterday.
Lieutenant Maurice Mowbray MC served with the Royal Engineers and Captain Norman Mowbray served with Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
A replica wooden World War I cross was rededicated to the brothers by Kinloss-based personnel serving with 39 Engineer Regiment.
Commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Tom Marsden said: “This is a fitting tribute to the bravery, service and sacrifice of our forebears, which is especially poignant in the centenary year of the outbreak of the Great War.”
Lt Mowbray served throughout the Western Front during the war, including action at Ypres, Arras and the Somme.
He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions on July 5, 1916, while consolidating a mine crater blown three days previously.
He moved with his company to the Somme and was injured on July 27, 1916, during an artillery bombardment of Delville Wood, where his section was developing a trench complex for the infantry.
In August of 1917, Lt Mowbray returned to Ypres with the company.
From August 17, 1917, the company undertook track maintenance at Zillebeke and built a first aid post in Hooge.
Lt Mowbray was killed in action in Hooge on August 23, 1917, aged just 21.
He was buried at Ypres and a cross was laid on his grave by the men who had served with him in France and Belgium.
Speaking at the time, his commanding officer said: “He was absolutely fearless and very capable, and his men would follow him anywhere. If only he had been spared, he would have done more than well in the service.”
The wooden cross laid on his grave by the men of 89th Field Company was taken to Stirling after the war to sit beside his brother’s grave in Snowdon Cemetery.
Capt Mowbray was 33 when he died in a climbing accident on the Buachaille Etive Mor in Glencoe in 1930.