A SEARCH for a missing WW2 memorial tablet is under way.
Langside Community Heritage has asked Glasgow communities to help find the missing tribute.
It says before the demolition of the Battlefield Parish Church in 1995, two World War memorial tablets were removed for safekeeping. A new modern church took its place and was renamed Langside Parish Church.
When Langside Community Heritage and Finn’s Place, the community wellbeing project at Langside Church, began research into the names on the war memorials in 2018, no trace of the bronze tablets could be found.
In 2022 the group was informed that the WW1 tablet had been stored at the Royal Engineers HQ in Paisley and was returned to the church, but the second has not yet been found.
Langside Community Heritage is working in partnership with Finn’s Place to find the WW2 tablet, and to have them reinstated and rededicated.
Unlike the first one, the WW2 tablet only has the list of names of those who died in the war, not the church name, thereby making it harder to identify its origin.
The list includes the following names: Andrew Brownlie, Thomas A Brownlie, Peter Brough, James Dunlop, Abraham Grant, Adam Jackson, Thomas G Grosvenor, Andrew S Lorimer, Thomas McCash, Donald A MacDonald, Donald C MacDonald, William B Robertson, David F McLeod, John R McMillan, Alexander McNab, Roderick Matheson, Donald Munro and William Stark.
If you or someone you know was a member of Langside Church in the 1990s, or you have any information on the missing memorial tablet, please contact Langside Community Heritage or Finn’s Place.
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