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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: Old Monkland Cemetery, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire |
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Map Ref: NS719632 (Roughly!)
Located in Old Monkland Cemetery. Like the Memorial in New Monkland Cemetery not exactly a War Memorial as such . . . . . ?
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Just having another look at this 'Memorial' and I'm having trouble figuring out what some of the these men's Regiment were - e.g. L.C., S.W.B., S.W.B. and R.M.F.
Suggestions gratefully received.
Anne |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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LC - Labour Corps or LG - Life Guards
SWB - South Wales Borderers
RMF - Royal Munster Fusiliers
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Adam,
I noticed I put in S.W.B. twice - the one I meant to put in was L.V. - Lanarkshire Volunteers?
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David McNay Administrator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 11425 Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: |
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That's probably right. I thought it was a Y, which would have been Lanarkshire Yeomanry. |
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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What was the criteria / reason for burials in this area? _________________
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know Derek.
Maybe the men mentioned had a wee bit of assistance from the British Legion - burials can be an expensive business.
There is another quite impressive stone in Old Monkland (which I haven't posted yet) and it's called 'The Veteran's Corner' It lists 5 men, all veterans of the Crimea, Indian Mutiny etc., who died between 1911 and 1918. I'll try and find out a wee bit more about them soon.
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