Chalmers Street Church WW1

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Reference WMO/173238

Address:

St Columba's Church (The former St Andrew Erskine Church)

Robertson Road

Dunfermline

KY12 0BF

Scotland

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Chalmers Church united with Queen Anne Street Church in 1942 to form Erskine Church. After conservation work the memorial was relocated into St. Andrew's Erskine Church, Dunfermline and rededicated on 11 November 2018. RVs were invited and attended. At some later date St Andrew’s Erskine amalgamated with Townhill & Kingseat Church to form Dunfermline St Columba’s Church. The memorial is a medium-sized brass plaque, measuring about 500mm by 300mm, with incised lettering in a cursive style which has been filled with black wax. The plaque records the names of 16 members who fell in the Great War, including Sergeant John Erskine VC of the Cameronian Regiment It is designed to be fixed to a wall or to a timber backing with large brass countersunk screws. The plaque is currently displayed on the wall of a room of memorials at St Columba’s, perhaps a collection of memorials ‘rescued’ over the years as local churches have closed.
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To The / Glory of God / and / IN EVER GRATEFUL / REMEMBRANCE / of / [names] / LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / in the / 1914 ~ Great War ~ 1919

David B. Nicholson; John B. Nicholson; Robert Cowan; James Brown; David Simpson; John Halcrow; William McL Erskine; John Erskine. V.C.; David H. Smith; Robert Wilkinson; Alexander Allan; James Crombie; James D Watt.

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