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jamiemcginlay
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 Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: Carloway - Isle of Lewis |
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The Carloway memorial is a fairly recent addition to the landscape and was unveiled on Remembrance Sunday 1989. Its a beautiful memorial and is floodlit so it makes quite an impact when you discover it at night as I did. It was constructed of Balmoral Marble. I'm afraid my daylight photographs of the names didn't turn out very well, the floodlit pictures are more easy to read. Sadly the memorial also lists the men of the community lost in the Iolair disaster at the end of WWI.
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Adam Brown
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Jim
It is interesting that there are four Korean War names - all serving in US Forces. Is USMA the US Military Academy at West Point I wonder?
I notice they have Korean War as 1950-1956 instead of 1950-1953. Did it officially end in 1956? You sometimes see the Great War as 1914-1919 so there is a precedence.
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CSMMo
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Adam, The only USMA I know of is West Point, but they didn't send anybody until they graduated, had been commissioned and assigned to a unit that was engaged.
Jim,
Do you know the significance of the numbers on the left? There are some Ross Mountain Battery boys there.
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jamiemcginlay
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Hello Mike,
Soory I can't be certain but I assumed they were the addresses or house numbers of the men.
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Adam Brown
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| jamiemcginlay wrote: | I assumed they were the addresses or house numbers of the men.
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I assumed it was house numbers as well.
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CSMMo
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Thanks for your ideas. How interesting that they would put house numbers, but it brings home how small some of these areas are. We all know that the Isle of Lewis took a disproportionately high number of deaths in The Great War.
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alexmaclennan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:52 am Post subject: Numbers on Lewis Memorials |
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| jamiemcginlay wrote: | Hello Mike,
Soory I can't be certain but I assumed they were the addresses or house numbers of the men.
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Not house numbers but CROFT numbers.
In a village each croft (strip of ground of about 5 acres) is allocated a number. The house takes the number of the croft, which is why if two houses are built on a croft they will be A and B.
The Lewis and Islay memorials give the villages that the fallen came from and Lewis memorials often also give croft numbers. I think it may be local custom but also identifies the men with the land. The land was of vital importance in these villages as it was part of their subsistence living.
My village in Lewis was created after WW1 when men returning from the war raided Lord Leverhume's hunting fishing estate and settled - they felt they were due land for fighting.
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CSMMo
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Thanks for that explanation Alex. Any chance you're related to one (or more) of the 10 Maclennans (That I know of) of the Ross Mountain Battery?
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