Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Gatwick Quarff And Cunnburgh
- Town
- Quarff
- County
- Shetland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8892
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Current location
Quarff Parish Kirk
off A970
Quarff
Gatwick Quarff And Cunnburgh
Shetland
ZE2 9EY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: HU 42847 35447
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- An aedicule placed up against a wall. This contains a rectangular plaque with a leaf motif in the two upper corners and a raised inscription.
- Inscription
- ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF QUARFF/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE/ BELONGING TO THIS DISTRICT/ WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE WAR 1939-1945/ (Names) / THEIR NAMES LIVE FOREVER
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Davidson, Andrew
Johnson, William
Malcolmson, Alexander
Manson, Alexander
Nicolson, William
Tait, John
Tait, Thomas
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, regiment
Order of information: surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, service
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal
- Plaque
- Condition
- Quarff Parish Kirk
- WMO ID: 256998
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 07-03-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Scottish Military Research Group - warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic3467.html - Accessed 21 January 2016.
- Roll of Honour - www.roll-of-honour.com/Shetland/Quarff.html - Accessed 3 February 2016.
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