1st Ross-shire Mountain Battery Memorial Cairn

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Reference WMO/259422

Address:

Drill Hall and TA Centre

Junction of Church Street and Lewis Street

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

HS1 2LS

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Cairn
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Circular tapering cairn surmounted by a bronze thistle. On the front is a stone mount with a metal plaque for each World War. Royal Garrison Artillery badges above the inscription. The Scotsman Newspaper of 29 September 1927 reported- THE ROSS BATTERY. A REMARKABLE RECORD. SIR I. HAMILTON'S TRIBUTE. GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON, accompanied by Colonel C. H. Clark, D. S. O., and Colonel Bruce Allan, O. B. E., who commanded the Ross Mountain Battery in Gallipoli, arrived at Stornoway on Tuesday night for the purpose of unveiling yesterday afternoon the monument erected at the Drill Hall to the memory of the men of the Ross Battery who, fell in the war. In the forenoon they visited the Nicolson Institute, where Sir Ian Hamilton addressed the teaching staff and pupils.
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TO THE UNDYING MEMORY OF/ OFFICERS NCOS AND MEN/ OF THE 1ST ROSS-SHIRE/ MOUNTAIN BATTERY R.G.A. (T)/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR /1914-1919/ EGYPT.GALLIPOLI.BALKANS./ ALSO IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEMBERS OF THE ABOVE BATTERY/ WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945.

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