Hillswick WW1

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Reference WMO/259867

Address:

Hillswick Old Cemetery (St Magnus')

Hillswick, Shetland

ZE2 9RW

Scotland

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Stone Marble
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Brass plaque, (framed in pink and cream marble and wood when it was in the Church), carved with thistles and wreaths; dates of war in top corners. The Church did not reopen after COVID due to it's poor condition after the 12 month COVID closure. It has, with immediate effect, been placed on the sale market- refer BBC Radio Shetland Evening News Bulletin 29 March 2021. In October 2021 the plaque was moved to Old Hillswick Cemetery (not Tangwick Haa Museum at Eshaness as was originally reported). This is NOT the modern Cemetery north of the village, but is in the village centre. It is not marked on Google maps, but the pin location is accurate. When it was at the Church the plaque was internal, now it is at the Cemetery it is external fixed to a wall (refer to the image accompanying the facebook notification of the BBC Shetland Radio evening news bulletin on 11 November 2021). At the relocation the marble and wood backing was no longer required. The wood was in fact found to be in poor condition anyway.
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DULCE ET DECORUM / EST PRO PATRIA MORI /ROLL OF HONOUR / 1914 – 1919 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY / OF THOSE FROM THIS DISTRICT WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES FOR US IN THE GREAT WAR /(10 names) / “BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED” / “ON THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”

Column 1-William Abernethy/ William A Mouat/ James Mouat/ James J Nelson/ Peter Peterson/ Column 2- Laurence W Ratter/ John M Sandison/ Peter Matthew Thomson/ William G J Tulloch/ James J Tulloch

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