SANDAY

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Reference WMO/150026

Address:

Crossroads

Lady Village

Sanday

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Square-based cairn formed of roughly finished pink granite blocks, with inset polished pink granite plaques carrying engraved inscriptions painted black. Surmounted by unpolished pink granite obelisk with various details carved in relief: Union Jack, wreath, crest, and foliage. Pedestal a single level of roughly finished pink granite blocks, with a polished pink granite plaque with engraved inscriptions painted black set against it. Modern metal wreath holders secured into base of pedestal. Rests on elevated concrete base partly enclosed with cast iron railings; this is surrounded by wider concrete base partly enclosed by cement pointed and capped flagstone rubble boundary wall.
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IN GRATEFUL AND EVER LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF SANDAY WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR1914 – 1919 ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE” SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945 IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN

JAMES BROWN, MAGNUS BROWN, JAMES LYALL, ALFRED MACKINSON, JAMES CAMPBELL, WALTER FAIRBAIRN, JAMES GUTHRIE, JAMES MOODIE, JOHN H. TAIT, DAVID M. LEARMONTH, JOHN MOODIE, JAMES A. BURNETT, JAMES SCOTT, JOHN ANGUS, JAMES CLYNE, RICHARD DICK, PETER FOTHERINGHAME, ROBERT M. HAY, WILLIAM HAY, JAMES A. LEARMONTH, WILLIAM MUIR, WILLIAM ROBSON, WILLIAM SINCLAIR, WILLIAM TOWRIE, WILLIAM TULLOCH, WILLIAM TULLOCH, ANDREW WALLACE, JAMES WALLACE, JAMES DICK, JAMES FEA, PETER FOTHERINGHAME, GEORGE LENNIE, ROBERT L. GARRIOCH, WILLIAM LEARMONTH, JAMES MUIR, JOHN C. DEARNESS, DAVID DREVER, WILLIAM FLETT, WILLIAM WALLACE, JOHN MUIR, WILLIAM SINCLAIR, CHARLES CUTT, DAVID MANSON, ARCHIBALD MUIR, GEORGE F. PAUL, JOHN SWAN, JOHN SWANNEY, JOHN TULLOCH, DAVID KING, WILLIAM MUIR, BLAIR WOOD

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