We were in a tiny village in northern Scotland, literally two streets and a square with a little church on one side. Off to one side of the square was a red sandstone memorial arch -- literally covered with hundreds of names of men from that tiny village that died in WWI. Down on the bottom at one side were 5-6 names of men who died in WWII.
I remember having that EXACT same experience in Scotland. This was 16 years ago but I want to say it was Glencoe but then again I could be wrong. But the picture you paint makes me think we were in the same place. Really struck me as well.
The village was Aberfeldy, on the little road up to Loch Tay from the old cathedral town of Dunkeld. It's really Perthshire, central Scotland, not the
far north.
Town square.
General Wade's bridge in beautiful downtown Aberfeldy - one of the many he built in the 1710s to "civilize" northern Scotland . . .
The memorial to the raising of the Black Watch regiment in Aberfeldy, right by Wade's bridge.
The "Birks o' Aberfeldy" that Robert Burns memorialized are near the village, uphill through a wood. You pass the War Memorial on the way to the Birks.
The only pic of the War Memorial that I can find on the internet is copy-protected.
Does this look like where you were? It's a pretty regular tourist stop, because of all the connections with Robt Burns, Gen'l Wade, the Black Watch, etc.