Tingwall War Memorial

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Memorial Details
Location:	Tingwall Kirkyard
Structure:	High stone structure
Date Unveiled:	-
War:	World War 1 & World War 2
Names on Memorial:	World War 1 - 38 World War 2 - 11
OS Map Reference:	HU 390 230
UKNIWM No.:	8878

Tingwall War Memorial is located in the kirkyard beside Tingwall Kirk.
The main memorial is a World War I Memorial. It is a very high square stone column erected on a wider base. The top is a kind of roof shaped, below is a coat-of-arms with an upright lion, the top inscription reads : "TO TINGWALL SONS WHO DIED IN THE WAR"
"Their names liveth for evermore".
Below that, all fallen men from the different communities in the Parish of Tingwall is listed, and the inscriptions : "They laid down their lives for their Friends", and "Greater love hath no man than this"

The base is decorated with a sword and a flag, and has the inscription :
1914 - 1919 LEST WE FORGET.
At the foot of the base a stone plaque for the fallen in World War II is added.
Among them is one woman; Helenor Frances Horne, from Scalloway, Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandria Imperial Military Nursing Service, who died in Normandie in June 1944

The names of the fallen men in WW I

SCALLOWAY Robert Gray James Halcrow John R. Henry Francis R. Inkster John S. Irvine Joseph J. Leask William Robertson Adam J. J. Ross John Scollay William Scollay Jon A. Smith Robert Tait Peter T. Thomson Arthur Tulloch James C. Umphray

James R. Umphray Thomas Umphray James G. M. Watt James F. Williamson John C. Williamson Scott Williamson TRONDRA John J. Moffat Andrew William Moffat William Slater SOUTH SETTER Henry Irvine John Irvine GOTT George Henry William Henry

CALIFF William H. Smith BRAEWICK John T. Peterson J. John Peterson LAXFIRTH Robert R. Gunn GIRLSTA Charles Hardy Thomas Hardy William David Hardy Hercules Hardy James T. Herculson William S. Murray

The Names of the fallen in WW II

SCALLOWAY Angus Graig John Gilbertson Helenor F. M. Horne Robert C. W. Umphray Thomas Mason J. Tynuall Robertson

Robert Slater Thomas F. Watt Robert William Young GIRLSTA James Brown James H. Leask