Lieutenant Alexander Shiels Elliot

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Reference WMO/267737

Address:

Hobkirk Parish Church

Bonchester Bridge

TD9 8QY

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Bronze plaque attached to family burial lair (a lair in Scotland is a grave plot in England, although in this case it is a vault or mausoleum rather than a simple plot). There is also a window at St Nicholas Church, Lanark, WMO 267738
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HE WHOM THIS SCROLL COMMEMORATES/WAS NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO,/AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT/ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED/HARDNESS, FACED DANGER, AND FINALLY/PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY/THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE,/GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS/MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM/LET THOSE THAT COME AFTER SEE/TO IT THAT HIS NAME BE NOT FORGOTTEN/+/LIEUT./ALEXANDER SHIELS ELLIOT/HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY/DARDANELLES/28TH JUNE 1915/AGED 22 YEARS

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