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Morar Archway Memorial

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Reference WMO/175907

Address:

Kilchuimein Cemetery

Morar

PH40 4PA

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Arch
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Metal Copper
  • Metal Iron
  • Rock/Rough Stone Rock/Rough Stone
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Stone Archway structure with wrought iron gate between archway and wrought iron fencing either side of arch located at entrance to Morar Jilchuimein (old) Cemetery which is just north of the village on a side road from the B8008 which passes through the village. First world war metal plaques set into archway columns & dates of First & Second World Wars incised into stonework arch columns with outer wrought iron gate and stone pathway and low stone walls leading towards archway. The memorial has inscriptions of 17 names for WW1 and 9 names for WW2. There is a further plaque attached at the rear is a memorial plaque commemorating Charles Lyons, MM & Bar. The memorial was designed by Kenneth Bird, better known as the Punch magazine cartoonist “Fougasse”, and was built by Mallaig stonemason Archibald MacLellan, who also worked on Morar church. Inside the left side of the arch a cast bronze plaque commemorates those killed during WW1. On the right side, another cast bronze plaque commemorates those killed during WW2.
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In Grateful memory of the Men of this District Who Gave Their Lives in the Great War (Names) In Grateful Memory of the men of this District who gave their lives in the 1939-1945 Great War (Names)

WW1 names - Lieutenant John Hay Caldwell, Camerons & RFC; Private Donald Campbell, Camerons; Stoker Donald Gillies, RNVR; Private John Gillies, RAMC; Private Archibald Grant, Camerons; Private Angus McDonald, Camerons; Private Donald McDonald, HLI; Private Angus McDonnell, Lovat's Scouts; Gunner Alexander McIntyre, RGA; Private Donald McKinnon, HLI; Private Alexander McLellan, A&SH; Private Angus McLellan, Camerons; Private Angus McLellan, MGC; AB Donald McLellan; Private John McLellan, Camerons; Priate John McLellan, Camerons; AB William Marnoch, RNR. WW2 names - John Cameron RAF, Hugh MacDonald RN, Angus McDonnell RAF, Angus Mackintosh Royal Horse Artillery, John Mackintosh Gordon Highlanders, Roderick MacLean RN, Donald Murdoch MacLennan RN, Patrick Hugh Shaw Stewart Scots Guards, Cyril Tozer

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