Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- City Of Edinburgh
- Town
- Leith
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 4 June 1922
Attended by: Lord Provost Hutchison
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 89026
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Current location
South Leith Parish Church
Kirkgate
Leith
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
EH6 6BJ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 270 730
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Previous locations
- Congregational Church
Constitution Street
Leith
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Congregational
- Congregational Church
- Description
- Two identical marble tablets with 8 names each, the one with the names C to I has an anchor at the top, the one with the names M to W has a crown at the top
- Inscription
- each tablet- WAR MEMORIAL/IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/[names]/FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Claucher, Alexander
Coulthurst, Robert A
Crawford, John L
Drever, George
Hay, Alfred E
Herriot, John
Hunter, George
Innes, James M
Moir, Andrew H
Peace, David
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Tablets
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=4128&mforum=warmemscot
- 'The Scotsman', Monday 5th June 1922, Page 2. "Lord Provost Hutchison yesterday at the forenoon service in Leith Congregational Church, Constitution Street, unveiled the memorial to sixteen men connected with the congregation who died in the war. The memorial consists of two marble mural tablets. The service was conducted by the Rev. G. B. Shepherd and the Rev. T. C. Murphy."
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