The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

[DerekR]

UKNIWM ref no. not listed
O/S map ref: NG 857 809

Poolewe War Memorial takes the form of a Celtic Cross and is situated in a small park to the left of Poolewe Post Office and looks over to the famous Inverewe Gardens.
A small cairn near the memorial tells that the path to it and general improvements to the site were made in October 2000.
It memorial is very unusual in that it lists more Second World War casualties than it does for the Great War. Nine men are listed for the Second War, 7 for the First.




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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

[DerekR]

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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

[DerekR]

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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

[DerekR]

To The Immortal Memory
Of Poolewe Men
Who Fell In The Great War
1914 – 1919

Sgt. F McIver, Seaforth Hrs.
Pte. E Lawrie, Seaforth Hrs.
Pte. K McDonald, Seaforth Hrs.
Pte. W Ross, Seaforth Hrs.
Sgt. J Urquhart, Camerons
Pte. J McLennan, A&S Hrs.
Pte. F Cameron, East Kents.

“Lean Iad Cu Dluth Ri Cliu An Sinnsear”
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

[DerekR]

1939 – 1945

A.B John MacLean M.N
A.B Donald Murdo MacKenzie, M.N
A.B Roderick Cameron, M.N
L/Cpl. Angus MacKenzie, A&S Hrs
Pte. Duncan Urquhart, Black Watch
Sgt. Duncan Lawrie, Seaforth Hrs.
Cpl. Archibald Lawrie, Seaforth Hrs.
Pte. Ian Macgiver, Seaforth Hrs.
Pte. Robert R.Urquhart, Commandos.
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

[DelBoy]

WW1
Sgt. F. McIver, Seaforth Hrs.

(Glasgow Herald 7th April 1915)
"Information has been received that Sergeant Finlay McIver, of the 4th Seaforth Highlanders, previously reported wounded and missing succumbed on March 14 to the injuries he received at Neuve Chapelle. He took part in the historic engagement on March 11, and was employed cutting the barbed wire entanglements of the enemy when the pliers he was using were struck from his hands by a piece of shell and he was severely wounded in the abdomen. Sergeant McIver was a native of Poolewe and was a ghillie on the Inverewe estate. He was 33 years of age and was married."

Not a Sergeant but a private. Although recorded as such on the memorial and the newspaper report.

CWGC
McIVOR, F
Rank: Private
Service No: 1244
Date of Death: 14/03/1915
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: Sp. Mem. A. 3.
Cemetery: ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION

SNWM
Surname: McIVOR
Firstname: Finlay
Service Number: 1244
Date Death: 14/03/1915
Place of birth: Gairloch Ross-shire
Other: 4th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
Rank: Pte
Theatre of death: F.& F.

[stuartn]

This is now WMR report 75904

[Kenneth Morrison]

Pte. F Cameron, East Kents.

Ross-shire and Kent - you can't get much further apart???

Private
CAMERON, F
Service Number G/2513
Died 03/05/1917
Aged 34
7th Bn.
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Son of Kenneth and Jessie Cameron, of Londuth, Poolewe, Ross-shire; husband of Helen Watson Cameron, of 33, Marylebone Lane, Wigmore St., London.
BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, FICHEUX
Location: Pas de Calais, France
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Ken

[Adam Brown]