Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Fetlar And Yell North Ed
- Town
- Sellafirth
- County
- Shetland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), First World War - civilians
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 70472
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Current location
Inside
Sellafirth Kirk
Sellafirth
Fetlar And Yell North Ed
Shetland
ZE2 9DQ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: HU 51648 98507
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- A dark stone tablet in a wooden frame.
- Inscription
- ERECTED / TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE / MEMBERS & ADHERENTS OF THIS / CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES /IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1921 / (7 names) / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN /THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY / DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bruce, Thomas A
Henry, Alex M
Henry, Colin M
Nicholson, James
Nicholson, Laurence S
Nisbet, Colin A
Nisbet, David
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, Surname, Service
Order of information: Undefined - First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, Surname, Service
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Scottish Military Research Group - warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic3478.html - Accessed 21 January 2016.
- Riddell, Linda K. 2012 ‘Shetland and the Great war’ The University of Edinburgh. - (www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/7771/Riddell2012.pdf) - Accessed 26 February 2016.
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