The Scottish War Memorials Project

DerekR · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject: Hawick Municipal Roll of Honour

UKNIWM Ref: 44298
OS map ref NT493145

The Hawick municipal Roll of Honour is located next to Hawick War Memorial in Wilton Lodge museum.
It consists of highly elaborate hand painted scrolls housed in double sided wooden cabinets.
It remembers the 693 Hawick casualties from the Great War and 122 from the Second.

Here are some examples of the panel details:

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DerekR · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:

The Second World War memorial panels:

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DerekR · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

And the ADDENDA/post 1945 panel:

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DerekR · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject:

Remembering Walter Sutherland, "Wattie Suddie", Hawick & Scotland rugby legend killed by a stray shell at Hulloch on his 28th birthday, 90 years ago today:

‘It is hard to realise that one who so recently had walked the streets of the old Border town, who was held in such affection by its youth, whose bright smile and cheery nature were like rays of sunshine, had gone and would never again adorn its peaceful life. The memory of such a life, with so many just claims to remembrance, will always stand out as a permanent inspiration and a bright example to all who may follow the Rugby game’.

‘He was made of the stamp of which heroes are made’.

Name: SUTHERLAND, WALTER RIDDELL
Initials: W R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 04/10/1918
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Isabella Riddell Sutherland, of the Imperial Hotel, Hawick, Roxburghshire. Received 13 caps playing for the Scottish International rugby team, between 1910 and 1914.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. C. 22.
Cemetery: HOUCHIN BRITISH CEMETERY

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