The Scottish War Memorials Project

spoons · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject: Rigg

The memorial is at the entrance of Gretna Cemetery at OS Map Ref: NY 301 672.

UKNIWM 44219

No names on this memorial I am afraid.

DerekR · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

This is the first time I've seen this memorial and to be honest I'm wondering what the point of it is.
Rigg wouldn't have had many war dead so why the absence of any names?

Hawick's War Memorial is the only other in the south of Scotland that I can think of that doesn't list the names on it but at least there is a book of remembrance nearby.

Very strange.
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DerekR · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

I've had a look at SDGW and Rigg only appears 4 times:

Rigg born:

James Tuddenham, 1/6th West Riding Regt, 30/4/18
Peter Reid, 16th Notts & Derby Regt., 21/9/17

Lived in Rigg:

John Rome, MGC, 30/3/17 (also commemorated on the Gretna War Memorial)
James Lundy, 1st Royal Irish Rifles, 18/11/17
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spoons · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject:

Although UKNIWM describes this as the Rigg memorial, the cemetery is the main Gretna cemetery even though it is in Rigg! There are certainly a few war graves inside, I spotted 5 and I was only there for a few minutes.

It can't be much more than a mile to the Gretna memorial so perhaps we should consider it as belonging to Gretna cemetery rather than to Rigg.

I would be interested in the story behind it too.

DerekR · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

It's a complicated scenario with the Rigg memorial being near Gretna and the Dornoch memorial being on the fringes of Eastriggs Shocked

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