Burra Isle War Memorial

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Memorial Details
Location:	Bridge End, Burra.
Structure:	Stone Obelisk
Date Unveiled:
War:	World War 1 & World War 2
Names on Memorial:	23 (WW1) 11 (WW2)
OS Map Reference:	HU300300
UKNIWM No.:	8890

Burra Isle War Memorial is erected at Bridge End. The front of the memorial has the inscription : To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of the Burra Isle men who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914 - 1918
On the sides of the column are listed the names of the fallen men.
Near the base on one of the sides is added the inscription : In memory of the men who gave their lives 1939 - 1945, and a list of the fallen in World War II.

The names of the fallen men in WW I

Thomas Ward Thomas Aitken Oliver Goodlad John Inkster Robert Inkster Thomas Inkster John W. Jamieson Sincair Pottinger

William Pottinger James Pottinger William D. Pottinger William C. Christie William Inkster John J. Duncan William Ewenson John A Fullerton

John J. Inkster James Laurenson John L. Laurenson Thomas Peterkin Laurence B. Smith Andrew Goodlad Robert Hunter

The Names of the fallen men in WW II

John J. Inkster Walter Williamson John R. Smith Gilbert Inkster Charles Christie Arthur Leask

Sam A. Ward Peter Cumming Fred Halcrow Thomas Henry William Goodlad