Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Orkney
- Town
- Lyness (Isle of Hoy)
- County
- Orkney
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Regimental Memorials
- Maker
- Mr W A Fraser of Inverness (Makers)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: April 1917
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 61730
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Current location
Royal Naval Cemetery
Lyness (Isle of Hoy)
Orkney
Orkney
KW16 3NS
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: ND 30249 94660
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Celtic cross
- Inscription
- TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ THE OFFICERS AND MEN/ OF/ H.M.S. MALAYA/ WHO WERE KILLED IN THE/ BATTLE OF JUTLAND/ MAY 31st 1916/ AND OF THOSE/ WHO AFTERWARDS DIED OF/ THEIR WOUNDS// ERECTED BY THEIR SHIPMATES/ THAT THE INHABITANTS OF OUR EMPIRE/ MAY IN PEACE AND QUIETNESS SERVE/THEE OUR GOD
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Regimental Memorials
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Cross
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2069&mforum=warmemscot
- Flickr WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/RCAHMS/5769106707/
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/107261/textcontribution/hoy+walls+lyness+nav...
- names of those who died-www.northeastmedals.co.uk/britishguide/jutland/hms_malaya_casualty_list_1916.htm
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