Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Other structure
- District
- Sandness And Walls Ed
- Town
- Foula
- County
- Shetland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: c1925
Attended by: unknown
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8843
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Current location
Half a mile from nearest road
overlooking the sea
Foula
Sandness And Walls Ed
Shetland
ZE2 9PN
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: HT 97512 38190
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Symmetrical battered tower of square plan. Harl-pointed rubble plinth with slabbed top; stugged squared and snecked sandstone 2nd stage, battered, with ashlar cross to E side, and inscribed polished granite memorial slab set into W side; open-work parapet over string course comprising merlon-like dies linked by continuous cope.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF FOULA WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Henny, John W
Henry, John
Henry, Rbert C
Robertson, Cedric S
Robertson, George R H
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,regiment,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: depth 3540MM, height 3740MM, width 3590MM
Materials: Stone
- Memorial
- Condition
- Foula War Memorial
- WMO ID: 230799
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-04-2016]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- geograph - www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3560123 - Accessed 21 January 2016.
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