Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Western Islands
- Town
- Bornais (Isle Of Uist)
- County
- Western Isles
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), First World War - civilians, Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Maker
- Messrs D. & A. Davidson, sculptors, Inverness (Designer)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: AFTER March 1934
Attended by: Unknown
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44782
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Current location
1 mile south of the turn-off to Bornish
6 miles north of Daliburgh / Dalabrog and a few hundred yards south of a transmission mast.
A685
Bornais (Isle Of Uist)
Western Islands
Western Isles
HS8 5SA
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NF 74443 28627
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Tapered base surmounted by tapered plinth and celtic cross. Inscription on the sides of the plinth and base. Whole is enclosed by a fence. Celtic knotwork design on the face of the cross
- Inscription
- TO/ THE GLORIOUS/ MEMORY OF THE MEN /OF SOUTH UIST /WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES /IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919 'IN THREE CONTINENTS AND IN THE DEEP THEY LIE/ BUT IN OUR HEARTS THEIR DEEDS FOREVER ARE ENSHRINED'/[names arranged by village across the 4 upper faces] At the base- 1939-1945/[names arranged by village across the 4 faces]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Blair, Duncan
Bowie, Angus
Bowie, Archibald
Bowie, Ewan J
Bowie, John
Bowie, Neil
Boyd, Neil
Campbell, Alexander
Campbell, Donald
Campbell, Donald
See details for all 177 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 119
Served and returned: 0
Died: 119
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, regiment, forenames, home village
Order of information: home village - First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 12
Served and returned: 0
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, service, forename, home village
Order of information: home village - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: 0
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, regiment, forename, home village
Order of information: home village - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 24
Served and returned: 0
Died: 24
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, service, forename, home village
Order of information: home village
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: depth 4FT, height 20FT, width 4FT
Materials: Granite - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Polished - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Local
- Cross
- Condition
- South Uist and Eriskay
- WMO ID: 151044
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 02-12-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic4204.html
- The Scotsman - Wednesday 21 March 1934 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19340321/097/0011 SOUTH UIST WAR MEMORIAL Site chosen at Daliburgh
- Note about Mr McKiggan of Frobost, WW2 being mis-spelt on the memorial as McKissan-warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=7866&mforum=warmemscot
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