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
- 70700
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Current location
Adam Clarke Memorial Church
Lower Hillhead
Lerwick
Lerwick
Shetland
ZE1 0EJ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: HU 47512 41205
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- Painted roll of honour, a scroll in 3 sections Left Section: Ionic Column with a soldier and a sailor superimposed and a ribbon banner round; a cross underneath surmounted by a crown. Right Section: sword with a shield superimposed at the top of the blade and an army belt (with inscription) wound round; underneath a a palm tree on a shoreline and under this a soldier helping a wounded comrade being watched over by a guardian angel in the form of a nurse.
- Inscription
- LERWICK WESLEYAN CHURCH / ROLL OF HONOUR Left section GREATER LOVE HATH / NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. /BE / THOU / FAITHFUL / UNTO DEATH / AND / I WILL GIVE THEE / A CROWN / OF LIFE. Centre Section-[names] Right section- On the shield: FOR / GOD / AND THE / RIGHT. On the belt WAR DECLARED / 4TH AUGUST 1914 / PEACE PROCLAIMED. 28 – 6 – 1919 / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 /1915 / 1916 / 1917 / 1918 / 1919. On the sword: ARMISTICE / SIGNED / 11TH NOV 1918 Signed at the bottom: Wm. L. CHEYNE / APRIL 1918 ROLL / COMPLETED MAY 1920
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 76
Served and returned: 76
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper
- 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 (2012)-page 354-355
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