Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Moray
- Town
- Forres
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 6 February 1921
Attended by: Mr Alexander Grant, J.P., Edinburgh
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 80057
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Current location
Located to the left of the organ on the North West Wall
47
St Leonard's Church
High Street
Forres
Moray
Grampian
IV36 1PB
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 03800 59049
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Previous locations
- In the vestibule window
United Free Church
Forres
Moray
Grampian
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: United Free Church
- In the vestibule window
- Description
- Fumed oak board
- Inscription
- ERECTED BY THE HIGH U F CHURCH FORRES TO THE / GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR - 1914 - 1919 / (names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Black, William
Burr, James
Chisholm, John A
Cumming, Wm.
Cumming, Wm.
Ferguson, John
Ferguson, Wm.
Fowlie, James
Fraser, Alexander
Fraser, David
See details for all 35 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 35
Served and returned: 0
Died: 35
Exact count: yes
Information shown: year or death, forename, surname,
Order of information: year of death
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- Condition
- Forres High United Free Church
- WMO ID: 265083
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 01-10-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 08 February 1921 FORRES WAR MEMORIALS. UNVEILED IN PARISH AND U.F, CHURCHES. A memorial tablet for those belonging the United Free Church, Forres, who fell in the war, was unveiled in the church Sunday afternoon. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19210208/103/0006
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