The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

apanderson · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: Stirling

In Marr Cemetery up at Stirling Castle there are 3 large'ish stones, each of them bearing umpteen names.

1.
I think this might be a CWGC stone - I'm not sure, I haven't seen anything like it before. Inscribed on it are the names of 20 men all killed in WW1. All these men are listed on CWGC as being buried in Marr Cemetery, in the same section as this stone is, but not in the same exact spot. None of them have separate CWGC stones. I don't know yet whether any of them have family stones as I haven't transcribed all the photos yet.

2.
This stone is "In memory of the undermentioned N.C. Officers and Private Soldiers of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders whose remains lie interred beneath" Inscribed on the stone are the names of 11 men who died between 1838 and 1884. It gives their service numbers (although most of them are too eroded to de-cypher), rank, name and dates of death which are also pretty badly eroded. There are no causes of death.

3.
This stone is "In memory of the undermentioned N.C. O. and Men of the Depot Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders whose remains lie interred here" Inscribed on the stone are the names of 16 men who died between 1884 and 1903. It gives their service numbers rank, name and dates of death. Again there are no causes of death apart from one man who drowned in Linlithgow Loch in 1898.

My question - do any of these come under the 'memorial banner'? Confused

Anne

Adam Brown · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:

Stone 1 must be a CWGC marker for men buried in the cemetery during the war without headstones. I wouldn't class this as a memorial since it was something that would have been covered by the old BWMP project and at the start we decided if it had a place there it didn't have a place here.

Stone 2 and 3. The stones mark their graves so it really should be no since they are not memorials but markers. Saying that though we've included a grave marker / memorial in Instanbul to Gordon Highlanders which doesn't follow CWGC pattern and lists men not on the CWGC database.

This is all a very grey area for us and there are probably other photographs on the forum which shouldn't be here but have been included for interest. For that reason you could probably could post them. Confused

I've always been of the opinion that doubtful memorials should be posted first and then we can debate whether they should be removed.

It will be interesting to see if anything specifically Scottish comes out of the demise of the BWMP because all three of these stones (and quite a few others already posted on this forum) could certainly be recorded by something like that and wouldn't need to be posted here.

Adam