Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Window
- District
- Glasgow
- Town
- Glasgow
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), VC or GC Recipients
- Maker
- MR ROBERT ANNING BELL RA (Designer)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 54483
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Current location
The three windows on the east wall at the back of the Alexander Elder Memorial Chapel
Glasgow Western Infirmary Chapel
Dumbarton Rd
Glasgow
Glasgow
Strathclyde
G11 6NU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 56495 66549
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Three stained glass windows with related brass plaque listing names below.
- Inscription
- Plaque: This Tablet and the above Windows/ have been erected by/ The Western Infirmary Residents Club/ (Names)/ Pro Patria Left window: Michael Within centre window: In memory of/ the house-Physicians and/ house-Surgeons of this Infirmary/ who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1919 Right window: Uriel
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: 0
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, decorations
Order of information: surname - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Window
Measurements: height 2700mm, width 800mm
Materials: Stained Glass - Plaque
Measurements: height 800mm, width 400mm
Materials: Brass
- Window
- Condition
- Glasgow Western Infirmary - WW1 Windows (including Harry Sherwood Ranken VC)
- WMO ID: 153511
- Condition: Good [last updated on 19-02-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Hospital due to be demolished & re-sited in near future but nothing known of what is to become of the chapel or its memorials.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust
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