Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- City Of Aberdeen
- Town
- Aberdeen
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 2 January 1921
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
Crown Terrace Baptist Church
Crown Terrace
Aberdeen
City Of Aberdeen
Grampian
AB11 6HE
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 93909 05933
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- Framed brass plaque mounted on the wall above the WW2 memorial.
- Inscription
- 1914-1919 / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN CONNECTED WITH THIS CHURCH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR / (names) / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Begg, James
Chenoweth, Andrew
Craigmyle, Charles
Cruickshank, James
Ewen, John J.
Leith, James W.
Reid, William E.
Shedden, William
Shinnie, Herbert F. C.
See details for all 9 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forename, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- Condition
- Aberdeen Crown Terrace Baptist Church WW1
- WMO ID: 271221
- Condition: Good [last updated on 29-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 01 January 1921 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19210101/068/0001 BAPTIST. CROWN TERRACE BAPTIST CHURCH - 11, Memorial Service (Unveiling of War Memorial Tablet); 6, "The Guide of Life" — Monthly Sermon to Young.
- Crown Terrace Baptist Church History 1989 docs-eu.livesiteadmin.com/48b192d7-2cc3-4a07-b747-efb90078bce1/ctbc1989history.pdf This is a history of the 50 years of Crown Terrace Baptist Church from 1939 to 1989. Page one contains a brief summary of the first hundred years which is dealt with in detail in the Centenary Brochure produced in 1939.
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