War Memorial, King's Park, Dalkeith

The War Memorial in King's Park, Dalkeith, was designed by James P Alison in 1920. This substantial and symmetrical memorial features a square shape with buttresses and is topped with an open crown. It is constructed from cream sandstone ashlar and stands on a three-tier plinth. The base course includes bold thistle-head crockets.

Each elevation has a slightly set-off diagonal buttress topped with squat crocketted pinnacles. There are recessed and cusped depressed-arched panels with chamfered reveals on each side. The memorial has a coped parapet that is raised over each panel, with dies and squat crocketted pinnacles supported by carved brackets at the center. The open crown features a solid octagonal crown at the apex, along with a hemispherical cap adorned with thistle carvings, ribs, and a cross finial, which rises from the buttresses that have pinnacled kneelers. The crests of the Royal Scots, Gordon Highlanders, Highland Light Infantry, and a Maltese cross are displayed on the buttresses.

On the west elevation facing Eskbank Road, there is a recessed panel inscribed with the coat of arms of Dalkeith Burgh, depicting a resting lion, along with the inscription: "The men of Dalkeith whose names are inscribed on this memorial died in defence of Home and Country in the Great War 1914 - 19." Below this panel, above the base course, is the inscription: "And the Second World War 1939 - 45."

Polished granite panels on the remaining elevations are inscribed with names, with those from 1914-19 in recessed panels and those from 1939-45 below the panels.