Scottish War Memorials and Kilts

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Kilted Kiwi

There is, indeed, a register of where UK soldiers are buried or commemorated:

http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp

Slainte

Bruce

Found a few distant relatives on there (Great grandfathers, brothers boys) (Cunninghams, Otago Mounted rifles (NZ))

Thanks for that, most informative.

Regards

Phil C

[Stratherrick]

Phil

Found a few distant relatives on there (Great grandfathers, brothers boys) (Cunninghams, Otago Mounted rifles (NZ))

Thanks for that, most informative.

Glad to help! One good thing I did was write to the site to update their records re one of my great uncles who had died of his wounds just after WW1 ended. For some bizarre reason, his military headstone just says A Fraser, not Alexander.

I have also used a similar website that lists the last resting place of all US military killed in battle. This helped me figure out that at least one of the soldiers billited with my dad's family in Torquay, Devon, immediately prior to the D-Day landings, died on Omaha beach after embarking from my home town.

Slainte

Bruce

[Chas]

Kilted Kiwi

There is, indeed, a register of where UK soldiers are buried or commemorated:

http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp

Slainte

Bruce

For some reason the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's responsibility stops with the end of the Second World War. I have an Uncle, killed in Korea and comrades in arms killed in the Falklands. I have written to the CWGC many times and the stock answer is "We'll get back to you."

Regards

Chas

[cessna152towser]

Very poignant pics.
Lest we forget.

[Stratherrick]

Chas

You'd have thought that, there being lesser numbers involved, that the CWGC would have continued to commemorate the dead after WW2.

Hmmm...

Bruce

[Pleater]

The posts about Irish soldiers in the Great War made me think - My mother's family cannot trace any record of the birth or early life of their father, who served in the mounted infantry.

After their father's death my mother and one of her sisters visited Ireland - I am not sure which part, but there are a few photos.

My sister says that it was to holiday with a pen friend, but I am fairly sure that I was told that it was with family.

It could be that my grandfather wished to avoid any reprisal, and that he used a false name.

The surname Tuvey is more usually spelt Toovey, but pronounced Tuvey - to rhyme with groovy, rather than Toovey to rhyme with 'no way'.

If someone had only heard the name rather than seen it written, someone assuming the name might misspell it, or someone without written records might have their name misspelt when enlisting.

One of my uncles is paying for research on his father, but there could have been a very good reason why he wished to keep his origins secret.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Santa Wally]

For Ron (Riverkilt)

The view from my place of work



Chris

With a view like that, how can you get any work done ? I'd be looking out the window all the time !!!

[beloitpiper]

Edinburgh

[Dixiecat]

A single loss is unforgetable for a few. Sadly The United Kingdom lost nearly a whole generation of men in WW1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roy...dland_Regiment

When I lived in Newfoundland I was humbled to find that Canada Day (July 1) is not the provincial holiday. It's Memorial Day, commemorating the loss of almost an entire generation of young Newfoundlanders.

[Nervous Jock]

Edinburgh

This is the Black Watch Memorial for the South African War towards the top of the mound. as with many of the period the plate with those who died of sickness is about the same as those who died of wounds.

The plinth had graffiti on it for many years but thankfully has been cleaned up