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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
Current location
Parish Church
Polwarth Terrace
Polwarth
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
EH11 1LU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 23685 71886
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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