“We were devastated to find the roll had been completely destroyed by water damage and no names could be recovered...but'
The Roll of Honour was placed in the war memorial by a local woman called Mrs Ryan, who had lost four members of her household in the conflict.
Colin Quigley, chairperson of GRG, explains: “We were devastated to find the roll had been completely destroyed by water damage and no names could be recovered.“All was not lost, as the group knew that in 1922 each member of the War Memorial Committee had been given a copy of the roll, so we set about trying to track down their descendants in the slim hope that someone, somewhere still had it.
The Roll of Honour Sheila found in a barn loft of a croft on Skye had belonged to William Munro, a former Baillie for Govan Burgh. “William’s daughter Williamina married a crofter from Skye named Malcolm Morrison in Govan in 1933. They moved to Tokavaig croft in Skye, where they lived until Malcolm died in 1948.
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