Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Lerwick
- Town
- Lerwick
- County
- Shetland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 13 May 1923
Attended by: Mrs J Williamson of Hangclif Lane & Mrs Sinclair of Burgess Street (Mrs Williamson had lost her husband & Mrs Sinclair had lost two sons in the war) - Dedicated
Date: 13 May 1923
Attended by: Dr Smith, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8884
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Current location
at the entrance to the apse
St. Columba's Church
Greenfield Place/Knab Road (A969) junction
Lerwick
Lerwick
Shetland
ZE1 0AQ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: HU 47786 41102
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- 2 oak-framed brass tablets with depictions of the burning bush and the dove of peace. Each tablet has a blue lined border, with a red cross at top centre, surmounted by a crown
- Inscription
- 1914 – 1919 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN / FROM THIS CHURCH WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WAR/[names]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, Charles B
Anderson, Laurence
Anderson, Robert J
Anderson, Thomas
Blance, James L
Boyles, Andrew L
Byrne, Andrew
Byrne, James
Corkish, William H
Craik, Benjamin M
See details for all 66 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 66
Served and returned: 0
Died: 66
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaques
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Shetland and the Great war by Linda K Riddell (2012)-a Phd thesis for Edinburgh University, page 354
- Shetland Times 19 May 1923
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