
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Inverness
- Town
- Inverness
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 15 May 1921
Attended by: Rev. Dr. Allen Cameron - Unveiled
Date: 15 May 1921
Attended by: General Sandilands, commanding Highlands Territorial Brigade - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 78588
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Current location
By side of the River Ness
South of Inverness Castle
Ness Bank Church
Ness Bank
Inverness
Inverness
Highland
IV2 4SF
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 66604 44870
Denomination: United Free Church
- Description
- Brass memorial tablet on South wall of the vestibule of Ness Bank Church of Scotland. On wooden panel.
- Inscription
- ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING AND HONOURED MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF THE NESS BANK UNITED FREE CHURCH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR FOR HUMANITY / 22 NAMES / "THE VICTOR HEROES REST IN MANY LANDS / BUT HERE THE SYMBOL OF THEIR GLORY STANDS."
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Baird, Norman O
Chisholm, Robert D
Dawson, Frank S
Duffy, Charles
Fraser, Donald
Fraser, Harry
Fraser, John
Fraser, William
Hogg, Thomas
Johnstone, William
See details for all 22 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: 0
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forename, surname, rank, regiment, honours
Order of information: surname, forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Tablet
- Condition
- Men of Ness Bank United Free Church WW1
- WMO ID: 260424
- Condition: Good [last updated on 26-10-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Ness Bank Church
- Reference
- INVERNESS CHURCH MEMORIAL Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 16 May 1921 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19210516/082/0006
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