The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow

Glendale - Isle of Skye

The Glendale war memorial is a rustic grey granite obelisk on a pedestal which rests on a low rough cairn of local stone. The names of the dead are listed on granite tablets set into the face of the pedestal and these include the men of the surrounding communities. The monument stands above the roadside within its own enclosure surrounded by railings. The memorial is apporached from the road by a series of steps set into the slope.

WWI ROLL OF HONOUR:
MACLEOD DONALD PRIVATE MILIVAIG
MACKINNON WILLIAM PRIVATE MILIVAIG
GRANT NEIL SERGEANT MILIVAIG
GILLIES MURDO PRIVATE WATERSTEIN
MACASKILL DONALD PRIVATE BORRERAIG
MACLEAN JOHN PRIVATE BORRERAIG
MACLEAN JOHN PRIVATE SHEADER
MACKENZIE ALEXANDER PRIVATE SHEADER
MATHESON LACHLAN PRIVATE HUSABOST
MACKINNON RODERICK SERGEANT LEPHIN
MACLEOD KENNETH SERGEANT LEPHIN
MACASKILL MAGNUS PRIVATE FERRINVIQUIRE
MACKINNON KENNETH LIEUTENANT UIG
MACLEAN ALLAN PRIVATE HAMARA
MACLEAN NORMAN PRIVATE FASACH
MACLEAN NEIL PRIVATE FASACH
FERGUSON NORMAN PRIVATE FASACH
MACPHERSON JOHN SERGEANT HOLMISDALE
MACDONALD ALEXANDER PRIVATE HOLMISDALE
MACDONALD MURDO PRIVATE HOLMISDALE
MACPHEE MURDO PRIVATE HOLMISDALE
MACRAILD ALEXANDER PRIVATE HOLMISDALE
SHAW JOHN PRIVATE SHINIDIN
MATHESON NEIL NAVY & MERCHANT NAVY CHIEF PETTY OFFICER MILIVAIG
FERGUSON ALEXANDER NAVY & MERCHANT NAVY CHIEF PETTY OFFICER FASACH
MACLEAN JOHN ROYAL NAVY CHIEF PETTY OFFICER BORRERAIG ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE
MORRISON LACHLAN ROYAL NAVY CHIEF PETTY OFFICER LEPHIN ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE
MACKINNON JOHN NAVY & MERCHANT NAVY CAPTAIN SHEADER
GRANT MALCOLM NAVY & MERCHANT NAVY SEAMAN SHEADER
CAMPBELL MURDO NAVY & MERCHANT NAVY SEAMAN SHEADER
MACINNES DONALD NAVY & MERCHANT NAVY SEAMAN BORRERAIG
MACLEAN JOHN NAVY & MERCHANT NAVY SEAMAN TOTAIG

WWII ROLL OF HONOUR:
MORRISON DONALD ROYAL NAVY LIEUTENANT HUSABOST
MACDONALD JAMES ROYAL NAVY ABLE SEAMAN FASACH
MARTIN NORMAN ROYAL AIR FORCE WIRELESS OPERATOR D.F.C. HUSABOST
MACLEOD ANGUS PRIVATE COLBOST
MACKINNON JOHN MERCHANT NAVY CAPTAIN HUSABOST
BRUCE ALASDAIR MERCHANT NAVY SEAMAN MILIVAIG
CAMPBELL DONALD MERCHANT NAVY SEAMAN BORRERAIG
MACKAY JOHN MERCHANT NAVY SEAMAN LEPHIN

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject:

This memorial is not on the UKNIWM database. The OS Ref is NH 394 615

Adam

dhubthaigh · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 3:08 pm Post subject:

From a photo by Pat Anderson it appears that the railings have been removed and a low dry-stane dyke erected, along with a walkway to the memorial itself.

Keptie · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject: Glendale

This War Memorial is located beside a cemetery and as mentioned by Mark when I visited the memorial in 2008 the metal railings had gone and a walled surrounding the memorial had been erected . The sheep are still there so watch your step when walking to it !

patrick w anderson

Keptie · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: glendale

Roll of Honour for Skye & Lochalsh by Graham Ross . Copies held at both Portree Library and Inverness library.

Glendale War Memorial :

The Glendale War Memorial was unveiled and dedicated on Tuesday, 28th July 1924 in the presence of a great crowd of friends and relatives of the 32 Men commemorated on it . After a prayer in Gaelic by the Reverend Murdo McCaskill, the Free Presbyterian Church elder the Memorial was unveiled by Captain Martin of Glendale . The closing prayer was givenby the Reverend Gillies of the United Free Church .

The Memorial , in the form of a rough hewn grey granite obelisk on which is a Calvary Cross surmounted by Scottish Thistles , is situated close to the road to the village cemetery in the middle of the Glen.

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Patrick W Anderson