The Scottish War Memorials Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject: PAPA STOUR, WW1

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF

Magnus Fraser
Thomas Sinclair
Magnus Jamieson
William Fraser
John Robert Scott
Bruce Fraser

There is also a brass plaque below the window, with the incription:

"THE ABOVE WINDOW ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IS/ DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN SACRED MEMORY OF/
(The names of the fallen)/
NATIVES OF THIS ISLAND, WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR/
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

PHOTO COURTESY OF SHETLAND MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES;
http://www.shetland-museum.org.uk/project2/index.htm