Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Lerwick
- Town
- Lerwick
- County
- Shetland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 70696
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Current location
Shetland Museum
Hay's Dock
Lerwick
Lerwick
Shetland
ZE1 0WP
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: HU 47276 41791
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Post Office
Commercial Street
Lerwick
Lerwick
Shetland
ZE1 0EH
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Post Office
- Description
- Hand drawn Roll of Honour, in calligraphy with illustrations on each side, in black and white in a glazed wooden frame.
- Inscription
- LERWICK POST OFFICE/ROLL OF HONOUR/Main Office/[16 names]/Sub-Offices/[17 names]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 33
Served and returned: 0
Died: 33
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank, regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper, Wood, Glass
- Roll of honour
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Shetland and the Great War by Linda K Riddell-a PHD thesis for Edinburgh University, page 265
- The Arrest of the Entire Post Office Staff on 1 November 1914-www.scotlandswar.co.uk/lerwick_po.html
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