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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007
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Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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 Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: Kirkcudbright, MS Leinster memorial |
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Not listed on UKNIWM
Location in St Cuthbert's Old churchyard, Kirkcudbright. OS Map Ref NX 692 513.
Not sure whether to post this in SWGP or here so on balance I thought it best to post in both.
Erected by public subscription in memory of
Sergt A W Pankhurst 16008 SLY
Corpl C Withington 29495 328th Coy RDC
Pte H S Jones 22578 21st Lancers att RWS
Pte C J Hitchcock D 18893 att Carr Staf RE
Pte C Kenny 555637 att 448 Agric Coy
from the wreck of MS Leinster sunk without warning by German action
in the Irish channel Octr 10th 1918 their bodies washed ashore were
interred here with military honours
Till Reveille
(edit - additional text from Ken Morrison)
This group of memorial stones are just inside the main entrance to the graveyard.
The five men here are only a few of the over 500 casualties resulting from the sinking of the Royal Mail Ship Leinster which was torpedoed in the Irish Sea on 10 October 1918.
There are other CWGs at Kirkbean (1), Kirkandrews (1), Sorbie (1), Whithorn (1) and Portpatrick (1).
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Adam Brown
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Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| spoons wrote: | | Not sure whether to post this in SWGP or here so on balance I thought it best to post in both. |
We have a precedence on the forum: Steamships Main & Rio Verde, Kirkmaiden
The Steam Ships “Main” and “Rio Verde” were torpedoed in Luce Bay in 1917 and a memorial is in the graveyard next to the CWGC headstones. It is memorial and not a CWGC marker so it can be posted here.
Regards
Adam
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