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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Sutherland
- Town
- Melness
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 27th September 1922
Attended by: Rev. David Lundie, minister of the parish. - Unveiled
Date: 27th September 1922
Attended by: ex-Provost Donald Mackay of Thurso - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 5916
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Current location
North end of cemetery
just inside gateway.
Achuvoldrach Cemetery
A838 - West side of Kyle Of Tongue Bridge
Melness
Sutherland
Highland
IV27 4YR
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NC 57321 59266
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Round, tapering, column with a ball at the top set on a square plinth with tablets for the dedication and names in white lettering. The whole is set on two steps.
- Inscription
- 6o'clock face: Erected / IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF THE HEROES & HEROINE / FROM THIS DISTRICT / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1919 ALSO/ OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 - 1945 / (Names) 3o'clock face: (Names) 9o'clock face: (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barnetson, John
Campbell, David
Gunn, Robert A
Mackay, Allan
Mackay, Angus G
Mackay, Donald
Mackay, George W
Mackay, John
Mackay, Kenneth
Mackay, Mackay
See details for all 23 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, forenames, surname, regiment
Order of information: rank - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 19
Served and returned: 0
Died: 19
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, forenames, surname, decorations, regiment.
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Column
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Plinth
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- www.tongueskerraymelnesswarmemorials.co.uk/Melness-War-Memorial.html
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 30 September 1922 SUTHERLANDSHIRE MEMORIAL.
- The Scotsman - Saturday 30 September 1922 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19220930/062/0010 WAR MEMORIALS MELNESS, SUTHERLAND. — A war memorial was unveiled at Melness, Sutherland, in presence of a large gathering. The Rev. David Lundie, minister of the parish, presided, and the unveiling was performed by ex-Provost Donald Mackay, of Thurso, who, in addressing the gathering paid a high tribute to the manhood of the district for the unequalled response they had made to the country's call for men in the days of the Great War, Melness is one ot the most populous crofting districts in the North, and more than one quarter of its population were on service, either with the sea or land forces . , The memorial takes the form of a granite monument erected in the local burying-ground, which is situated close to the sea, arid overlooks the Kyle of Tongue.
- cosuthtribute.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/War Memorial Melness
- Names Transcription-warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=760&mforum=warmemscot
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