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    Memorial

    1st Ross-shire Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

    1st Ross Shire Mountain Battery RGA

    Source: Copyright Ivor Mackenzie

    1/12

    Current Location

    On the corner behind fence., Drill Hall and TA Centre, At the junction between Church Street and Lewis Street, Stornoway (Isle Of Lewis), Western Islands, Highlands and Islands, HS1 2LS, Scotland

    OS Grid Reference

    NB 42555 33025

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    Type of Memorial
    Cairn
    WMR Reference Number
    57912
    Description
    Circular tapering Cairn surmounted by a bronze thistle. On the front is a stone mount with a metal plaque for each World War. Royal Garrison Artillery badges above the inscription.
    Inscription
    TO THE UNDYING MEMORY OF/ OFFICERS NCOS AND MEN/ OF THE 1ST ROSS-SHIRE/ MOUNTAIN BATTERY R.G.A. (T)/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR /1914-1919/ EGYPT-GALLIPOLI-BALKANS./ ALSO IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEMBERS OF THE ABOVE BATTERY/ WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945.
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Sponsor Type
    public
    Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information
    Sponsored by members of the unit

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    28 September 1927

    General Sir Ian Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO

    Custodian
    The Territorial Army.

    Components

    Cairn

    Height: c 3000mm

    Width: c 1500mm

    Depth: c 1500mm


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Plaques

    Made from: Metal


    Condition: Good


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    War Memorials Trust Reference Number
    259422

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    • THE ROSS BATTERY. A REMARKABLE RECORD. SIR I. HAMILTON'S TRIBUTE. GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON, accompanied by Colonel C. H. Clark, D. S. O., and Colonel Bruce Allan, O. B. E., who commanded the Ross Mountain Battery in Gallipoli, arrived at Stornoway on Tuesday night for the purpose of unveiling yesterday afternoon the monument erected at the Drill Hall to the memory of the men of the Ross Battery who, fell in the war. In the afternoon they visited the Nicolson Institute, where Sir Ian Hamilton addressed the teaching staff and pupils. The Scotsman - Thursday 29 September 1927 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19270929/342/0008