Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Nesting And Lunnasting Ed
- Town
- Nesting
- County
- Shetland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6066
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Current location
Nesting
Nesting And Lunnasting Ed
Shetland
ZE2 9PR
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: HU 48120 57520
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Celtic cross set on a pillar and three stepped base on top of a rocky outcrop.
- Inscription
- (Names)/ IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE / OF THE MEN / OF NORTH NESTING / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING / AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1939 - 1945 / (Names)/ THEIR NAMES LIVETH EVERMORE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, Robert John
Anderson, Thomas
Arthur, Robert
Gray, Gifford Thomas
Hughson, Alexander
Hunter, Henry William
Johnson, Hugh Morrison
Pole, Thomas
Pottinger, Francis
Robertson, William
See details for all 10 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Memorial
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- geograph - www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2758903 - Accessed 21 January 2016.
- Roll of Honour - www.roll-of-honour.com/Shetland/NorthNesting.html - Accessed 3 February 2016.
- The Scottish Military Research Group - warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic3460.html - Accessed 21 January 2016.
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