{"id":1744,"date":"2021-10-21T04:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/?page_id=1744"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:00:06","slug":"wallace-monument-at-elderslie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/clan-projects\/wallace-monument-at-elderslie\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace Monument at Elderslie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"breadcrumb wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/cw\/category\/clan-news\/\">Clan News<\/a> >> <a href=\"\/cw\/clan-projects\/\">Clan Projects<\/a> >> Wallace Monument at Elderslie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>1970<\/b>&nbsp;\u2013 This project was the main reason the Society was formed in 1966 \u2013 to raise funds to purchase six bronze (colored) plates to complete the Wallace Monument in Elderslie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full shadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/c06.png\" alt=\"Wallace Memorial Bronze Plate\" class=\"wp-image-1733\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full shadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/c05.png\" alt=\"Wallace Memorial Bronze Plate\" class=\"wp-image-1732\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full shadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/c04.png\" alt=\"Wallace Memorial Bronze Plate\" class=\"wp-image-1731\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full shadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/c03.png\" alt=\"Wallace Memorial Bronze Plate\" class=\"wp-image-1730\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full shadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/c02.png\" alt=\"Wallace Memorial Bronze Plate\" class=\"wp-image-1729\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full shadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/c01.png\" alt=\"Wallace Memorial Bronze Plate\" class=\"wp-image-1728\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project would have failed if we would not have had the support of Dewitt Wallace; founder of Reader\u2019s Digest, and Candacraig,&nbsp;the last landed Wallace Laird in Scotland. Thanks to them and the founders, these plates were installed to complete the Wallace Monument in Elderslie&nbsp;in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image shadow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WallaceMemorial.jpg\" alt=\"Wallace Memorial and Yew Tree\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clan News >> Clan Projects >> Wallace Monument at Elderslie 1970&nbsp;\u2013 This project was the main reason the Society was formed in 1966 \u2013 to raise funds to purchase six bronze (colored) plates to complete the Wallace Monument in Elderslie. The project would have failed if we would not have had the support of Dewitt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/clan-projects\/wallace-monument-at-elderslie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wallace Monument at Elderslie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1799,"featured_media":0,"parent":307,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1744","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1744\/revisions\/3345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}