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World War 1 Commemorations 2019
The Deerness World War 1 project draws to an end in 2019 when we remember the last two boys on the War Memorial. Firstly, we remember James Clouston Dick who contracted TB whilst in the Royal Navy, and died on 28 September 1919 in the Seaforth Sanatorium, Dingwall and is buried in Mitchell Hill Cemetery there.
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Deerness Remembers – 100 years on…
This poem was written by Huw Gwynn-Jones and inspired by the war memorial in St Ninian’s Kirkyard.
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WW1 Commemoration Project Update
The World War 1 Commemoration Project continues and on the of 26 and 27 September 2015 the kirk was open for a display of photographs, memorabilia, and documents connected to two Deerness lads who fought at the Battle of Loos and died from wounds – James Craigie, aged 24, and Thomas Foubister, aged 22, both
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Remembering the 100th Aniversary
The Kirk will be open from 10am to 12pm and 2 to 4pm on Sunday 9th November, and then 10:30 to 11:30am and 7 to 9pm on Tuesday 11th November to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1.
