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SHIELDAIG WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2 - Detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Russell Edwards 2018

Shieldaig (Scottish Gaelic: Sìldeag) is a village in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The village was founded circa 1800 with a view to training seamen for war against Napoleon. After Napoleon's defeat and exile to Elba, the community found itself a new role as a fishing village.

The Shieldaig memorial is in an elevated position on a rock at the north end of the village. It takes the form of a two stepped, square base, surmounted by a tapered plinth, a tapered column and an urn style sculpture with the inscription carved on the front face of the memorial and painted in black lettering. There are 15 servicemen listed for World War 1 and one civilian; there are three names listed for World War 2 plus one civilian.

The names are listed by the person location but have bene sorted here into alphabetical order by surname, forename within conflict for ease of reading and research.

Photograph Copyright © Russell Edwards 2018

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
THE NATIVES OF
SHIELDAIG
REGISTRATION DISTRICT
WHO FELL
IN
THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918

O LORD HASTEN THOU THE WAY WHEN NATION
SHALL NOT RISE UP GAINST NATION, WHEN THEY
SHALL NOT LEARN TO WAR ANY MORE, AND WE THANK
THEE THAT MEANTIME THOU HAST PROVIDED US WITH
THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEFENCE AGAINST OUT ENEMIES

CAMERON Kenneth
Shieldaig
GORDON Alexander
Shieldaig
GORDON Duncan
Shieldaig
GORDON William
Shieldaig
GRANT George
Shieldaig
MACDONALD Duncan
West Alligin
MACDONALD Finlay
Bryblag, Alligin
MACDONALD Gregor
Shieldaig
MACGREGOR Roderick
Shieldaig
MACKENZIE Margaret
Shieldaig. Drowned on the Lusitania.
MACLEAN Murdo
Diabaig
MACLEAN Roderick
Brownhill, Annat
MACLENNAN Angus
West Alligin
MACLENNAN Donald N
Shieldaig
MACLENNAN Farquhar
Alligin
MACLENNAN John
West Alligin
MACLENNAN John
Shieldaig
MACLENNAN Murdo
West Alligin
MACPHERSON Finlay
Ardheslaig
MACRAE Thomas
Camus-An-Eilean
MATHESON Alexander
Kinloch, Shieldaig
  1939 – 1945
MACDONALD Alex John
Balgy.
MACKENZIE Roderick
Annat.
MACLENNAN Duncan
Portlair.
MACRAE Jessie Mary
Annat.

Last updated: 18 July, 2018

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