Bressay - WW1 & WW2 Tablets

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Reference WMO/153600

Address:

Parish Church

Heogan Road

Bressay

Shetland

ZE2 9EN

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: There are two (1 for each conflict) white marble, curved topped, tablet with black lettering set into recesses in the church wall, either side of the entrance door. IWM Register gives separte entries 8885/8886
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THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/1914 1919/[names]/ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF BRESSAY/IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/FOR HOME AND KINDRED/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/1939 1945/ [names]/ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF BRESSAY/GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS

WW1-JOHN W ANDERSON SEAMAN/ LEWIS DEYELL GORDONS/ JOHN W GIFFORD SEAMAN/ OGILVY GIFFORD SEAMAN/ CAPN SAMUEL GRAY MERCHANT NAVY/ CAPN JAMES GRAY MERCHANT NAVY/ LAURENCE LEASK ROYAL SCOTS/ WILLIAM HALCROW SEAMAN/ JOHN HUNTER RNR/ WILLIAM HUNTER AUSTRALIANS/ CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SEAMAN/ JOHN MANN LT RNR/ JOSEPH C NICOLSON CAMERONS/ ALEXANDER NICOLSON NEW ZEALANDERS/ WILLIAM STEPHEN SEAFORTHS/ GIFFORD TAIT NEW ZEALANDERS/ WW2- WILLIAM ANDERSON MN/ WILLIAM P ANDERSON MN/ GEORGE A BIRNIE MN/ LEVI L CLARK RNR/ ADAM GIFFORD MN/ PETER GORDON MN/ NEIL GRAY RAF/ COL GEORGE LINKLATER RASC/ GEORGE MOUNT MN/ THOMAS MANSON MN/ THOMAS K MANSON MN/ CATHERINE SUTHERLAND ENEMY ACTION/ BERTRAM SMITH MN/ JAMES M SMITH MN/ THOMAS SMITH MN/ SGT STANLEY R J SMITH GORDONS/ MORRISON D SMITH MN/ CHARLES SUTHERLAND MN/ WILLIAM SUTHERLAND MN/ WILLIAM WISEMAN COASTGUARD/ *Catherine Sutherland is also commemorated on a gravestone in the Kirkyard-presumably she is also buried there.

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