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Fersit Estate near Roy Bridge WW1 memorial

 
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Keptie



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:57 pm    Post subject: Fersit Estate near Roy Bridge WW1 memorial Reply with quote

The West Highland Museum . Fort William has on display the Fersit Estate Great War Memorial

In Memory of JAMES MACINTYRE , Gamekeeper, Luib Na Clach . DONALD GRANT , Forester , Fersit . GEORGE and JAMES ROSS sons of George Ross , Stalker , Loch Treig who gave their Lives for their Country in the Great War 1914 -1918 . Their name Liveth for Evermore .


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(This war memorial is in one of the display rooms in this musuem )

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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fersit is near Tulloch and although I can't find much on the internet from the names listed on the memorial you can get an idea of the area the estate covered and if you follow this link on Google Maps Street View. It is at the end of the road leading to Fersit and you can see the land around it which was the estate these men worked on.

Road to Fersit

Martin Briscoe has identified it as the Corrour Estate

http://www.mbriscoe.me.uk/page184.html

Fersit is certainly within the current Corrour Estate, it would be interesting to see if Fersit Estate was a seperate estate 100 years ago?

The Ross brothers are also be listed on the Roy Bridge War Memorial but not James MacIntyre or Donald Grant. It may be the Ross brothers were locals and the other two were recent incomers to work on the estate?

The Ross Brothers also have their own memorial in Kilmonivaig Church

Ross Memorial

The memorial lists them as from Lochtreig, Corrour.

ROSS, ROBERT GEORGE
Initials: R G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 21/07/1915
Service No: 422
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Ross, of Dell Lodge, Whitebridge, Inverness. Native of Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 6.
Cemetery: ROYAL IRISH RIFLES GRAVEYARD, LAVENTIE

ROSS, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 18/07/1916
Service No: 3/5744
Additional information: Son of George Ross, of Dell Lodge, Whitebridge, Inverness, and the late Agnes Tait Ross.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 15 B.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Thanks

Adam
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mhomac



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saw this Memorial earlier this week and realised that the men mentioned have been added to this site.
However, here's a picture of the Memorial hanging in the Fort William Museum.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 4:26 pm    Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number Reply with quote

This is WMR report 69434, which includes a photograph
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