Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- City Of Edinburgh
- Town
- Leith
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: November 1928
Attended by: Rev. T. B. Stewart Thomson, M.C., B.D.
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 88859
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- Previous locations
- Lockhart Memorial Church
Albion Place
South Leith
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Lockhart Memorial Church
- Description
- White Marble Tablet in 3 panels for WW1 with a WW2 addition abutting it, and now an integral part below. The WW1 tablet has the dedication below a wreath in relief, the names A to H in the left hand panel and K to S in the right hand panel. This appears to have replaced the memorial from its predecessor church- St Mungo's- our reference 88860
- Inscription
- WW1: [names]/TO/THE GLORY OF/GOD/AND IN MEMORY/OF THOSE WHO/GAVE THEIR LOVES/IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/"AT THE GOING DOWN/OF THE SUN/AND IN THE MORNING/WE WILL REMEMBER/THEM"/[names] WW2: 1939 WE REMEMBER ALSO THOSE WHO GAVE/THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1945/[names in 3 columns]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adams, Archibald J
Ainslie, William
Batchen, Arnot
Burton, David
Chisholm, Alexander
Combe, Alexander H E
Cubitt, Walter K
D'ath, George
Duncan, David
Durie, George B
See details for all 38 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 23
Served and returned: 0
Died: 23
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 15
Served and returned: 0
Died: 15
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- First World War memorial
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=4131&mforum=warmemscot
- From The Scotsman, 07-Nov-1928. EDINBURGH CHURCH'S WAR MEMORIAL.– In the Lockhart Memorial Parish Church, Edinburgh, a war memorial has been unveiled and dedicated by Rev. T. B. Stewart Thomson, M.C., B.D. The memorial, which is of white marble, contains the names of twenty-three members of the congregation who made the supreme sacrifice.
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