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| Memorial Details
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| Location:
| Bressay Kirk, Bressay.
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| Structure:
| Wall mounted marble tablet.
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| Date Unveiled:
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| War:
| WWI
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| Names on Memorial:
| 16
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| OS Map Reference:
| HU500400
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| UKNIWM No.:
| 8885
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Bressay WW I Memorial is a marble plaque in a frame, erected on the wall on the left side of the entrance door of Bressay Kirk. A similar WW II Memorial is erected on the right side.
The Memorial has the inscription: They Died That We Might Live, on the top of the plaque, and Erected by the inhabitants of Bressay - In loving memory for those who laid down their lives for home and kindred, at the bottom. Between is the names of all those who lost their lives.
The names of the fallen men :
- John Anderson
- Lewis Deyell
- John W. Gifford
- Ogilvy Gifford
- Samuel Gray
- James Gray
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- Laurence Leask
- William Halcrow
- John Hunter
- William Hunter
- Charles Kirkpatrick
- John Mann
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- James C. Nicolson
- Alexander Nicolson
- William Stephan
- Gifford Tait
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