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Somerled Square

Portree

Isle of Skye

IV51

Scotland

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In 2018, WMT gave a grant towards this war memorial. As it has been a number of years since the grant was given, we would like an up-to-date condition survey and photographs to be added to this war memorial record. Can you help?

Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
About the memorial: The memorial is a small version of the Edinburgh Mercat Cross. A thin white column headed by a small seated lion set on a large 6 sided elaborate stone plinth with names and text contained on stone slabs in its sides, being grey granite panels bearing the commemoration and names of the dead. All sitting on a 6 sided two stepped base. The memorial has inscriptions of 101 or 102 names for WW1, 19 names for WW2 and 1 name for the 1950 – 1953 Korean War. The memorial was constructed by local builder Thomas MacFarlane, whose only son John was the youngest person from Portree to die in WW1. On Thursday 16 February 1922 the memorial was unveiled and dedicated to the memory of the men who had died in WW1. The ceremony commenced with the assembled crowd singing the Psalm 100, followed by a Prayer of Invocation and an Address by Lieutenant Colonel K I MacDonald DSO of Tote. After Colonel MacDonald had unveiled the memorial, the Roll of Honour with names of the men from Portree, Sconser and Skeabost were read out. When the last of the names was read out, the newly unveiled memorial was handed over to the safe keeping of the Parish Council. After the end of WW2 the names of those killed in that war were added to the memorial and it was re dedicated. Sometime in the 1950s, the name of a National Serviceman killed in the Korean War was added.
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To the glory of God/and/in grateful memory of/the soldiers and sailors from/the Mainland of Portree parish and from/South Snizort who died for their/country in the Great War 1914-1919 Eternal honour to the true and brave/who for their native land their life blood gave. Mairidh an clio cu brath

WW1 Baker James /Bamber William/Baxter Angus Cameron /Beaton James /Beaton Norman /Beaton Norman /Buchanan Ewen /Buchanan Norman /Budge Donald R./ Cameron Donald /Cumming Donald /Cumming Donald /Cumming Donald A./Ferguson Archibald /Ferguson Murdo /Finlayson Alexander /Finlayson John /Fraser John M. /Gillanders Lewis A.R. /Graham Peter /Grant John /Grant John /Grant Murdo /Grant Norman /Kennedy Alexander/Kennedy John /MacDonald Alexander /MacDonald Donald /MacDonald Donald MacDonald Donald /MacDonald Donald J. /MacDonald John /MacDonald John M.C. /MacDonald Norman /MacDonald Ronald /MacDonald Ronald /MacDonald William /MacDougall John/MacDougall John A. /MacFarlane John/MacInnes Archibald /MacInnes Peter/ MacInness John /Mackenzie Archibald /MacKenzie Donald/MacKenzie Donald/MacKenzie John/MacKenzie John/MacKenzie John/MacKinnon Alexander/ MacKinnon Ewen /MacKinnon Martin/MacLean Alexander /Maclean Kenneth /MacLeod Alexander /MacLeod Alexander /MacLeod Angus /MacLeod Donald/MacLeod Donald /MacLeod Donald/MacLeod George /MacLeod Iain A. /MacLeod Malcolm /MacLeod Murdo /MacLeod Murdo/MacLeod Norman /MacMillan Donald /MacMillan Duncan /MacPherson Alexander /MacPherson Kenneth /MacQueen Angus/MacQueen John /MacQueen Peter /MacRae Donald /MacRae John /MacRae Jonathan /MacSwan Alexander /Matheson James /Murchison Angus Murchison Donald /Murchison John//Nicolson Alexander /Nicolson Archibald/ Nicolson John /Nicolson John//Nicolson John /Nicolson Murdo /Nicolson Murdoch Nicolson Samuel /Orme John /Orme William /Ross Alexander /Ross Angus /Ross William /Shaw Donald A. /Simpson James A. Portree/Simpson John W. /Sinclair Charles /Stewart Donald /Stewart John /Turnbull Duncan /Turnbull William WWII Bruce George /Davidson Ian N. /MacDonald Alexander /MacKenzie William D. /MacKinnon Ronald /MacLeod Neil / MacLeod Neil A. /MacLeod Norman/MacPherson Archibald /MacRae Hector /MacRae John /MacRae Matthew / Morrison Donald /Munro John A./Nicolson Samuel /Nicolson Samuel /Porteous W.F.W. D.F.M. & Bar/Robertson Lachlan /Whiteford Ian KOREA: Annan Alastair M.

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