BRANAHUIE AND MELBOST

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Reference WMO/142271

Address:

Opposite Airport

Stornoway

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

HS2 0BD

Scotland

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Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Stone of remembrance
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Granite tablet with inscription set into drystone cairn. Whole stands within a circular-walled bricked enclosure. It is behind the RAF Stornoway memorial (WMO 145004/261080). The referenced IWM report has a whole suite of images. Branahuie is marked on some signposts in its gaelic form of Braighe na h-Aoidhe.
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IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE FROM/ BRANAHUIE AND MELBOST/ WHO FOUGHT AND DIED/ FOR FREEDOM/ IN THE TWO WORLD WARS/ 1914-1918/ BRANAHUE/ (Names)/ MELBOST/ (Names)/ 1939-1945/ BRANAHUIE/ (Names)/ MELBOST/ (Names)/ AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM/ "Bha iad nam balla dhuinn araon, a dh'oidhche anns a là " / 1 Samuel 25:16

1914-1918/ BRANAHUIE/ 3 John Macrae, Seaforths, died 1918/ 11 Hector Macleod, Transvaal Scot, died 1917/ 12 Malcolm Maciver, RNR, died 1916/ 13 Evander Mackenzie, Seaforths, died 1917/ MELBOST/ 14 Alexander Graham, Canadians, died 1915/ 19 Angus Mackinnon, Canadians, died 1916/ 22 Kenneth Macleod, RNR, died 1918/ 27 John Macfarlane, Canadians, died 1918/ 1939-1945/ BRANAHUIE/ 22 Donald Macdonald, RASC, died 1947/ MELBOST/ 6 Alexander Macleod, Seaforths, died 1942/ 7 Ian M Macleod, MN, died 1944/ 18 Donald M Macfarlane, RAFVR, died 1942/

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