HARRAY

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Reference WMO/136805

Address:

St Michael's Churchyard

Harray

Orkney

KW17 2LD

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Plain polished pink granite block engraved on four sides with inscriptions painted black. Supported by unpolished pink granite block with engraved lettering painted black. Surmounted by a polished pink granite square-based column with neo-Grecian detailing, topped by a polished pink granite statue of a funerary urn. Memorial rests on a pedestal comprised of one upper level of rough pink granite blocks, and a large lower level of concrete. Sits within graveyard, immediately surrounded by historic graves. Positioned on top of a large mound believed to have been a broch, with expansive views looking over West Mainland to Hoy.
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IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR US1914 – 1918 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR US 1939 – 1945 FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH SHARERS IN VICTORY COMRADES IN WAR

A. AITKIN, C.A. BORWICK, W.V. BRUCE, T. GRAY, J. ISBISTER, W.J. JOHNSTON, M. HARRAY, A. SCOTT, J. NEWLANDS, A. NEWLANDS, I. NEWLANDS, J.F. SPENCE, J. ANDERSON, D. V. M. CULLIE, D. I. GARRIOCK, W. FLETT, J. SPENCE, G.R. JOHNSTON, J.W. CORRIGALL, W. FLETT, A. IRONSIDE, F.D.P. JOHNSTON, J.N.J. FLETT, J. MURRAY, J.R. JOHNSTON

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