Great Bernera

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Reference WMO/178595

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Breacleit church

Breacleit

Great Bererna

HS2 9LT

Scotland

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In 2018, WMT gave a grant towards this war memorial. As it has been a number of years since the grant was given, we would like an up-to-date condition survey and photographs to be added to this war memorial record. Can you help?

Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Bernera must have been amongst the first places in Lewis to erect a War Memorial after the Great War. It was paid for by money collected locally and donations from exiles and friends, and unveiled in the early twenties. Further names were added after the Second World War. Great Bernera is an island off mainland Lewis, connected to by bridge. It can be reached from the A858 (Stornoway to Carloway) road at Garynahine along the B8011 to Uig and the B8059 to Bearnaraigh, which is the Gaelic for Great Bernera. This memorial is located in the main village of Breaclet, opposite the primary school, diagonally across from the community centre, on the junction to Tacleit and Bhalasaigh.
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Erected to Commemorate the men of this district who made the supreme sacrifice for king and country in the World War of 1914-1918 for the Glory of God and good of Humanity Their names shall endure for ever Air a trocail mar chuimheachan le muinntir an aite In Grateful Memory of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war

SIDE 1 Breaclete 10 - Murdo Macdonald, DFC Croir 4 - Neil Macdonald SIDE 2 (First World War) Tobson 7 - Angus Macdonald 13 - Donald Macdonald 25 - Kenneth Macdonald 25 - Murdo Macdonald Breaclete 1 - Norman Macinnes 4 - Norman Maciver 5 - Norman Macdonald 8 - John Mackenzie Hacklet 4 - John Macaulay 4 - Donald Macaulay 6 - Norman A. Macdonald (on base, World War II casualties) Crulivig 4 - Malcolm John Mackay Lundale 8 - John Murdo Macdonald SIDE 3 (First World War) Kirkibost 1 - Donald Macarthur 8 - John Maclennan 9 - John Macdonald 11 - Malcolm Macdonald 12 - John Macaulay 21 - John Maciver Croir James RW Macleod Hector Morrison (Second World War) Tobson 13 - Angus Macdonald 22 - Kenneth Macdonald Hacklete 17 - John Martin SIDE 4 (First World War) Lundale 3 - Donald Macaulay 3 - Angus Macaulay 3 - John Macaulay 5 - Angus Macleod 5 - Roderick Macleod Crulivig 1 - Malcolm Macleod 6 - John Ferguson 6 - Kenneth Ferguson Earshader Kenneth Smith (Second World War) Kirkibost 8 - John Maclennan 11 - John Macdonald 7 - Alick E. Sim *** Numbers in front of names are house numbers of the villages

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