West Side of the Isle of Lewis

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Reference WMO/261140

Address:

Main Road

Bragar, Isle of Lewis

HS2 9DF

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wall
Materials:
  • Metal Iron
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Folly-like circular structure with no roof. Coping stone surmount the top of it. Wide entrance way at the front of the memorial. Unit badges carved on stones around the top of the outside of the structure. Inside the structure are the dedicatory tablets. A mosiac floor area inside the structure, made from pebbles taken from Holm beach, commmemorates those who died in the Iolaire disaster. Outside the structure are 105 quartz pebbles, one for each of the fallen. The Memorial is set within a small garden which is enclosed by railings. Covers the following communities- Arnol, North Bragar, New Shawbost, North Shawbost, South Shawbost and South Bragar. Opened 8 October 2005 by Leod Murray of Shawbost, a former Gunner in the Ross Mountain Battery, 51st Highland Division. He was captured at St Valery in 1940 and spent five years as a Prisoner of War. The site was free, the memorial cost £42,000. See The Stornoway Gazette dated 13 October 2005.
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This Memorial was erected in memory/of those that made the supreme/sacrifice in the two World Wars/and the Iolaire disaster/Opened on 8th October 2005/by Leod Murray of Shawbost/ "Unto the ends of all the earth/Wars into peace he turns" Ps 46 v9

TABLET 1- Arnol/1914-18/ 1 - D Macleod, RNR, died 1916 aged 25/ 4 - K Macphail, Army, died 1916 aged 19/ 5 - A Campbell, RND, died 1918 aged 30/ 7 - D Campbell, RNR, died 1915 aged 40/ 12 - D Macleod, Army, died 1917 aged 47/ 13 - N Macleod, RNR, died 1919 aged 46/ 13 - J Macleod, Army, died 1918 aged 40/ 15 - D Campbell, Army, died 1918 aged 21/ 21 - N Maciver, Army, died 1916 aged 21/ 23 - A Macdonald, RNR, died 1918 aged 24/ 23 - N Macdonald, Canadians, died 1915 aged 27/ 24 - K Macphail, RNR, died 1919 aged 27/ 25 - M Macphail, RNR, died 1915 aged 36/ 27 - D Mackay, Army, died 1915 aged 27/ 29 - N Mackay, Canadians, died 1918 aged 27/ 30B - M Macleod, Canadians, died 1916 aged 24/ 35 - D Macdonald, RNR, died 1919 aged 23/ 38 - M Maciver, Canadians, died 1915 aged 27/ 39 - M Macleod, RNR, died 1916 aged 26/ 43 - M Campbell, Army, died 1917 aged 35/ 45 - A Maciver, RNR, died 1919 aged 36/ 1939-45/ 33 - J Campbell snr, Army, died 1945 aged 23/ 33 - J Campbell jnr, RNR, died 1946 aged 22/ North Bragar/ 1914-18/ 7 - M Mackay, RNR(T), died 1919 aged 21/ 11 - J Macphail, Canadiens, died 1918 aged 29/ 12 - D Smith, RNR, died 1915 aged 40/ 19 - N Maclean, RNR died 1917 aged 28/ 24 - D Macphail, RNR, died 1917 aged 42/ 31 - M Mackay, Army, died 1916 aged 25/ 1939-45/ 3 - NJ Maclean, RCAF, died 1945 aged 24/ 23 - D Smith, RNPS, died 1940 aged 32/ 24 - E Macphail, QAIMNS, died 1943 aged 30/ 36 - K Macleod, MN, died 1943 aged 68/ TABLET 2- New Shawbost/ 1914-1918/ 6 - R Murray, Army, died 1919/ 13 - J Macdonald, Army, died 1914/ 13 - M Macdonald, RMLI, died 1917/ 13 - M Macleod, Army, died 1914 aged 18/ 21 - W Macleod Army, died 1916 aged 23/ 1939-45/ N Murray, Pioneers, died 1942 aged 22/ 22 - N Morrison, Recce, died 1944 aged 20/ 27 - J Macaulay, RN, died 1941 aged 20/ North Shawbost/ 1914-18/ 1 - N Macdonald, Canadians, died 1916 aged 29/ 9 - E Maciver, Canadians, died 1916 aged 21/ 9 - K Maciver, Army, died 1916 aged 25/ 10 - D Nicolson, RNR, died 1919 aged 50/ 11 - J Macdonald, Army, died 1917 aged 22/ 19 - JA Gillies, Army, died 1915 aged 19/ 31 - N Morrison, RNR, died 1918 aged 24/ 32 - M Macleod, RNR, died 1919 aged 18/ 32 - K Macleod, Army, died 1918/ 37 - R Macleod, Army, died 1915 aged 18/ 38 - D Macleod, RNR, died 1919 aged 20/ 45 - N Maciver, Army, died 1916 aged 19/ 55 - M Mackay, Army, died 1916 aged 19/ 56 - J Macaulay, Coastguards, died 1919 aged 37/ Schoolhouse, WS Ross, Army, died 1915 aged 33/ 1939-45/ 21 - D Gillies, MN, died 1940 aged 39/ 25 - D Smith, RNR, died 1940 aged 25/ 28 - N Macleod, RNR, died 1943 aged 33/ 42 - A Mitchell, RNR, died 1940 aged 30/ South Shawbost/ 1914-18/ 2B - C Macdonald, Army, died 1916 aged 28/ 5 - D Macleod, RNR< died 1919 aged 20/ 7 - M Maciver, Army, died 1918 aged 19/ 11 - A Macleod, RNR, died 1919 aged 51/ 11 - J Smith, RNR, died 1919 aged 35/ 14 - A Macleod, Canadians, died 1916 aged 33/ 23 - R Macphail, Army, died 1916 aged 42/ 25 - R Murray, RN, died 1919 aged 19/ 30 - D Gillies, RNR, died 1919 aged 28/ 34 - M Macdonald, RNR, died 1915 aged 31/ 43 - D Murray, RNR, died 1919 aged 40/ 43 - K Murray, Army, died 1915 aged 40/ 43 - K Murray, Army, died 1918 aged 28/ 1939-45/ 9 - MJ Macleod, RNR, died 1941 aged 24/ 23 - A Gillies, RNR, died 1943 aged 31/ TABLET 3- South Bragar/ 1914-18/ 1 - J Martin, RNR, died 1918 aged 18/ 3 - M Macdonald, RNR, died 1919 aged 18/ 6 - M Maclean, RNR, died 1919 aged 42/ 10 - M Maclean, RNR, died 1919 aged 48/ 13 - J Morrison, Army, died 1917 aged 19/ 14 - J Macleod, RNR, died 1918 aged 30/ 14 - M Macleod, Canadians, died 1917 aged 21/ 17 - J Maclean, RNR, died 1919 aged 37/ 19 - D Graham, RNR, died 1916 aged 30/ 19 - JM Graham, Canadians, died 1916 aged 23/ 20 - R Smith, RNR, died 1915 aged 20/ 23 - D Smith, Army, died 1917 aged 21/ 24 - D Morrison, RNR(T), died 1919 aged 35/ 24 - JM Morrison, RNR, died 1919 aged 24/ 24 - M Morrison, RNR, died 1919 aged 26/ 30 - A Murray, RNR died 1917 aged 26/ 30 - J Murray, RNR, died 1919 aged 26/ 36 - M Mackay, RNR, died 1919 aged 38/ 45 - D Morrison, Canadians, died 1917 aged 30/ 57 - J Macdonald, RNR, died 1917 aged 19/ 37 - M Macdonald, RNR, died 1919 aged 45/ 63 - D Morrison, Canadians, died 1916 aged 33/ 1939-45/ 6B - M Macleod, RNR, died 1941 aged 30/ 12 - J Mackay, RNR, died 1942 aged 29/ 13 - G Morrison, RNR, died 1940 aged 34/ 31 - C Mackay, RNR, died 1939 aged 29/ 40 - A Maclean, RN, died 1945 aged 20/ 41 - M Macphail, RNR, died 1943 aged 32/ 44 - D Murray, Army, died 1943, aged 42/ 61 - N Macleod, RNR< died 1940 aged 18

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