A Dalry man is to mark the 80th anniversary of a young pilot’s tragic death – at a mountain memorial miraculously rediscovered by forestry contractors.
Bob Peace will trek into the hills on Monday to lay a wooden cross and poppy at the stone which lies on the north-east flank of Cairnsmore at Carsphairn.
The retired police officer, 71, had believed the monument lost when he found to his horror that a new forestry road had obliterated the site.
