Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Renfrew
- Town
- Renfrew
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Dr Macgregor Chalmers (Architect)
Benno Schotz (Sculptor) - Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 1921
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 55137
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Current location
View location on Google Maps- Previous locations
- Current location of memorial unknown- closed as a Church in 2013- converted to flats 2017/2018
Renfrew Old Parish Church
High Street
Renfrew
Renfrew
Strathclyde
PA4
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 50802 67546
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Current location of memorial unknown- closed as a Church in 2013- converted to flats 2017/2018
- Description
- Marble tablet in two joined parts - with WW1 on top part and WW2 on bottom. set into a wall with a decorative metal flower vase each side. The WW1 inscription and names framed with a bronze border of laurel and decorated with a cross, wreath and medieval ship
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OPF GOD/ IN MEMORY OF THOSE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR MCMXIV-MCMXIX/ (NAMES)/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THEN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" AND IN THE WAR 1939-1945/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Airlie, John
Bain, William
Barr, Alfred P
Burns, James D
Burns, Robert
Calder, Daniel
Calder, Duncan E
Campbell, Malcolm
Campbell, Peter
Constable, John
See details for all 68 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 46
Served and returned: 0
Died: 46
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: 0
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: height 1350mm, width 900mm
Materials: Marble - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- First World War memorial
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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