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Colonel John Cameron, 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders- Waterloo

 
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Roxy
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:31 pm    Post subject: Colonel John Cameron, 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders- Waterloo Reply with quote
A huge obelisk visible from the A830 at Corpach.


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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.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The granite inscription (and a more modern copy)





Colonel Cameron fell at the head of his troops at Waterloo:

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Also remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and CXX/3 killed 2 Sep 06 in Afghanistan.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A memorial to Col Cameron is in the next door Kilmallie Old Churchyard:



Mrs Roxy has asked me to add that it was she who found the Memorial/gravestone!

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Also remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and CXX/3 killed 2 Sep 06 in Afghanistan.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:15 pm    Post subject: Col John Cameron Reply with quote
I hear from Major Ross (Rtd) of the Gordon Highlanders Musuem at Aberdeen the Gordon Highlanders Association maintains this memorial at Corpach

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