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ENNOBLED BY THEIR SACRIFICE."
TRIBUTE BY LORD LEVERHULME.
LEWIS is proud of its record in the Great War, proud of
and land in aotive fight in the War, and strenuous efforts
the achievements of its brave sons and daughters on sea
in munition factory. Lewis is proud of the fact that it
supplied 6172 men wearing His Majesty's uniform on sea and
land, and we all mourn that of these 1151 were called to make
the supreme sacrifice.
Blood was poured out like water, money was counted as
dross until our one-time most powerful military foe was
defeated and crushed. Not until liberty and civilisation were
made secure and safs, not until our homes, mothers, wives and
children were freed from the menace of the invader did the
brave efforts of our unconquerable Lewismen cease. They
with their comrades were the saviours of the British nation,
the saviours of the Empire, they were the liberators of man-
kind. Not untii victory was assured did our valiant Lewismen
return home to their beloved Island, to their anxious mothers,
their loving, waiting wives or sweethearts, their bonnie
children and the crofts they knew and cultivated. They have
not been demoralised — they have been ennobled by their
sacrifice, and it is now for us to prove ourselves worthy of
them by making life in Lewis higher, better, more complete
and fuller of all that goes to make life happy, joyous and
comfortable than it was when they left it at the outbreak of
War.
They have won the War : it is now for us to win the peace
and to make our Island fragrant with hopes and possibilities
for a brighter and more glorious future than ever Lewis men
and women experienced in the past.
Let us set ourselves to work to record in lasting stone and
bronze the memory of these brave Lewismen and of their
\ aliant deeds, sc that we and generations yet unborn may be
inspired to emulate their glorious example.
LEVERHULME.