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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Falkirk
- Town
- Falkirk
- County
- Central
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), First World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: May 1931
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 57612
Current location
The Church was renamed after the union with Falkirk Old and St Modan's Churches
Trinity Church
Hodge Street
Falkirk
Falkirk
Central
FK1 1JN
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: SJ 88500 70780
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Plaque in a wooden frame
- Inscription
- ERSKINE CHURCH/ THEY WHOSE NAMES ARE SET FORTH BELOW/ LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-18/ (Names)/ THEIR FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION/ HAVE ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL TO THE GLORY OF GOD AS A THANKSGIVING, THAT SUCH MEN WERE OF THEIR MARK.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aitken, Thomas
Begg, Harry
Brown, John
Burns, John
Cowan, John
Crawford, James
Dick, William
Fleming, William
Galbraith, James B
Hay, James
See details for all 26 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 25
Served and returned: 0
Died: 25
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, year of death, regiment, forenames
Order of information: year of death THEN surname - First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, year of death, service, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=8782&mforum=warmemscot
- Local Publication/Booklet 40 Baird, A: Erskine Church, Falkirk 1737-1937 (Falkrik 1937)
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