Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Nithsdale
- Town
- Parkgate
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44335
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Current location
Kirkmichael Parish Church
on minor road
about 1 mile west of the A701
Parkgate
Nithsdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG1 3LY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NY 00489 88355
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- NOWY HEADED WHITE MARBLE TABLET WITH INSCRIPTION IN BLACK LETTERING. BADGE OF THE KINGS OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS CARVED IN RELIEF AT THE TOP CENTRE OF THE TABLET
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ SAMUEL FARISH, LIEUT 1ST. BATT. K.OS.B.,/ ONLY SON OF/ SANUEL THOMAS FARISH, OF TODHILLMUIR,/ BORN AT KIRKLANDS, KIRKMICHAEL, 27TH MAY 1895,/ ENLISTED 4TH AUGUST 1914,/ WOUNDED AT TARTALI, SERBIA, 8TH DECR. 1915 & AT YPRES, 21ST AUGT. 1916,/ KILLED IN ACTION AT MONCHY-LE-PREUX, ARRAS, FRANCE, 24TH APRIL 1917./ HE LIVED IN DEEDS, NOT YEARS.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Farish, Samuel
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death,regiment,place of death,forename,place of birth,manner of death, date of birth,relationships,additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
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