The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow

Drumnadrochit & Glen Urquhart - Inverness District
UKNIWM Ref no. 5907

The Drumnadrochit and Glen Urquhart war memorial is a grey granite monument of an unusual design featuring a turreted tower set on a tapering pedestal and low rustic base, and surmounted by a small cross. The commemoration and names of the WWI dead are set in black lead lettering on the faces of the pedestal, and those for WWII are on a tablet set into the face of the base.
The monument stands in a railed enclosure by the roadside in the village.

WWI ROLL OF HONOUR:
BURGESS W.G. CORPORAL
CAMERON D. PRIVATE
CAMERON J. MCD. LIEUTENANT M.D.
COLLAN J.A. PRIVATE
COLLAN JAMES PRIVATE
CUMMING A. PRIVATE
CUMMING G. PRIVATE
FRASER A. LIEUTENANT
FRASER D. PRIVATE
FRASER J. PRIVATE
FRASER J. PRIVATE
FRASER W. PRIVATE
FRASER W.D. PRIVATE
GRANT D. PRIVATE
GRANT I. PRIVATE
GRANT J. PRIVATE
GRANT J.F. PRIVATE
GRANT JAMES OGILVIE CAPTAIN
MACBAIN D.S. PRIVATE
MACCABE A. PRIVATE
MACDONALD C. LANCE CORPORAL
MACDONALD D. PRIVATE
MACDONALD D. PRIVATE
MACDONALD D. PRIVATE
MACDONALD D. PRIVATE
MACDONALD D.A. PRIVATE
MACDONALD E.H. CORPORAL
MACDONALD J. PRIVATE
MACDONALD P.A. SERGEANT
MACDONALD W.W. PRIVATE
MACDOUGALL A. LANCE CORPORAL
MACDOUGALL A.F. LANCE CORPORAL
MACDOUGALL D. PRIVATE
MACGILLIVRAY A.J. PRIVATE
MACINTYRE W. PRIVATE
MACKAY IAN MAJOR
MACKENZIE A. PRIVATE
MACKINTOSH J. SERGEANT
MACKINTOSH J.M. PRIVATE
MACLEAN J. PRIVATE
MACLENNAN D. SERGEANT
MACLEOD J. PRIVATE
MACMILLAN D. PRIVATE
MACMILLAN J. PRIVATE
MACRAE D. LANCE CORPORAL
MACVICAR A. PRIVATE
ROSS DONALD LIEUTENANT
ROSS G. PRIVATE
ROSS W. PRIVATE
URQUHART A. PRIVATE
URQUHART ALEXANDER LIEUTENANT
URQUHART JOHN CAPTAIN

WWII ROLL OF HONOUR:
GORDON JOHN ROYAL AIR FORCE FLIGHT LIEUTENANT DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS
GRANT DONALD H. ROYAL AIR FORCE LEADING AIRCRAFTSMAN
GRANT H. OGILVIE PETER CAMERON HIGHLANDERS SECOND LIEUTENANT
GRANT JAMES D. AIRBORNE REGIMENT SERGEANT
LOVE JOHN F. ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS CORPORAL
MACDONALD IAN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS SERGEANT
MACKENZIE ALEXANDER S. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
MACLEOD JOHN R. ROYAL ARMY ORDINANCE CORPS PRIVATE
MACLEOD WILLIAM R. ROYAL AIR FORCE SERGEANT
ROSS WILLIAM CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
TOLMIE CATHERINE A.T.S. ELI. SUBALTERN

Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:41 am Post subject:

From the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) website

Drumnadrochit, Drumnadrochit Bridge, War Memorial

Type of Site: War Memorial
NMRS Number: NH53SW 91
Map reference: NH 5084 3013
Parish: Urquhart And Glenmoriston
Council: Highland
Former District: Inverness
Former Region: Highland

Roxy · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

This is a well looked after Memorial; it is lit up after dark:

_________________
Remembering my ggf, Pte Thomas Roberts, 10 SR, killed 25 Sep 15 at Loos.
Also remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and CXX/3 killed 2 Sep 06 in Afghanistan.

Keptie · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:35 pm Post subject: drumnadrochit

Listed on this wonderful and well cared for war memorial is listed
Lieutenant Alexander Urquhart , HLI and Observer in 20 Sqn RFC flying FE2d no B 1891 on the fatal day of 17th August 1917 when flying with Canadian Pilot, Lieut H W Joslyn . They were on patrol that morning when attacked by Jasta 6 ...

CWGC lists Lt Alexander Urquhart , HLI & 20Sqn RFC as residing at an address in Inverness as he was Deputy Sheriff's Clerk at the Inverness Sheriff Court at the Inverness castle . His father was in fact Chief Prison Officer at HMP Inverness . He played the pipes ... He is listed on the SNWM

Also listed on the Inverness burgh war memorial . His parents grave is at Drumnadrochit and he is listed on the headstone

pwa

Patrick w anderson

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:39 am Post subject:

SUBALTERN CATHERINE TOLMIE A.T.S. ELI.

What's ELI ???

Name: TOLMIE, CATHERINE
Initials: C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Subaltern
Regiment/Service: Auxiliary Territorial Service
Age: 32
Date of Death: 14/11/1947
Service No: W/338420
Additional information: Daughter of Alexander and Mary Tolmie, of Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 8. C. 10.
Cemetery: KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY (Austria)
_________________
Ken

Tonym · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 224 Location: East Sussex

Ken

Nothing in the list of Army abbreviations so no idea.

She is buried in Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria but that doesn't help.

Tony
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Pte. W. BROWN, Middlesex Regiment, K.I.A Battle of The Somme.
Sgt. J. V. MURPHY, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, D.O.W Monte Cassino, Italy.

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:46 am Post subject:

Having found close-ups of the Second World War panel on another website (hint, we need better images of the panel here!) I think the abbreviation is E.I.I. rather then E.L.I.

No clues to what that would stand for though.

Adam