Memorial

Flotta Church-Tablet

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Current Location

Flotta Church, Isle of Flotta, Orkney, Highlands and Islands, KW16 3NP, Scotland

ND 36643 93095

Church of Scotland

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Type of Memorial: Composite
WMR Reference Number: 61696
Description: Granite tablet with gold inscribed lettering, also a framed set of photographs of the 10 men, in a glazed wooden frame
Inscription: Tablet-To the Glory of God/IN LOVNG MEMORY OF THOSE WHO/FROM THIS ISLAND PARISH GAVE THEIR/LIVES IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY IN/THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/[names]/"THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT/IN THEIR LIVES AND IN THEIR DEATH/"THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED"/DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI Photograph-The heroes of Flotta who made the noble sacrifice for Freedom 1914-1918/[names]/They died that we might live

Sponsor Type: private
Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information: The tablet was "the personal tribute of Mr James S Mackay of Long Eaton and Nottingham, to his co-islesmen who, in the Great Wae, 1914-18, gave their lives for their country". The photograph was "the tribute of Mr Sutherland S Sutherland of Saraquoy, who, by collecting the soldiers' photos, and succeeding in getting the whole reproduced in one magnificent picture, has intensified in no small degreee the effect of the memorial tablet which it was designed to supplement"

Unveiled

31 October 1920

Mrs Mitchell

Dedicated

31 October 1920

Revd Mr A A Mitchell

Tablet

Made from: Granite

Condition: Good

Photograph/s

Made from: Paper

Condition: Good

Frame

Made from: Wood

Condition: Good