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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Lectern or desk
- District
- City Of Edinburgh
- Town
- Polwarth
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 06 November 1949
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8743
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Current location
From 1901 to 1929 this building was the Candlish United Free Church
then Candlish Parish Church until 1981
after union with the John Ker Memorial Church it became Polwarth Parish Church
36-38
Polwarth Parish Church
Polwarth Terrace
Polwarth
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
EH11 1LU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 23648 71889
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- A lectern with the names of 11 parishioners' who died in the war
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 11
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Memorial
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Scotsman - 9 November 1949 - pg.52
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?p=2530&mforum=warmemscot#2530 (shows that it was not in the Berwickshire Polwarth, but the Edinburgh one)
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