Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Vase or flower holder
- District
- Roxburgh
- Town
- Hawick
- County
- Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 12 Nov 1950
Attended by:
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 74276
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Current location
Teviot Church
St George's Lane
Hawick
Roxburgh
Borders
TD9 0BH
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 44983 14489
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Previous locations
- West Port Church
Hawick
Roxburgh
Borders
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: United Free Church
- West Port Church
- Description
- Solid silver Rose Bowl
- Inscription
- Side 1- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS CONGREGATION WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945 Side 2-[names]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aitken, George
Cairncross, James
Harley, Robert
Hogg, George
Mcleod, Edward
Thom, George
See details for all 6 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, rank, service
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Silver
- Memorial
- Condition
- West Port Church Rosebowl
- WMO ID: 255998
- Condition: Good [last updated on 19-01-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=5966&mforum=warmemscot
- Hawick News 12 Nov 2010, "60 years ago" column- 60 YEARS AGO At the morning service in West Port Church on Sunday a solid silver rosebowl was dedicated. It bears on one side the inscription: "To the glory of God and in loving memory of the men of this congregation who fell in the Second World War 1939-1945". On the other side are the names of the six young men commemorated: Fusiler George Aitken, Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers Cpl James Cairncross, Royal Engineers, att. Airborne Guardsman Robert Harley, Grenadier Guards 1st Class Stoker George Hogg, Royal Navy Piper Edward McLeod, A&S Highlanders 2nd Lt. George Thom, Black Watch.
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