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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: HMS Cossack Memorial, Edinburgh (T*) |
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HMS Cossack Memorial
Location: Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh
OS Ref:NT 284 757
I suppose this is really a CWGC marker and should be on the BWMP website but I think it counts a s a memorial so I'm posting it:
Adam
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Adam Brown Curator
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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And here is a transcription of the names:
CLARKE, WILLIAM HARRY
Ordinary Seaman P/SSX26241.
H.M.S. "Cossack". Royal Navy.
8th November 1939. Age 18. Son of William George and Ellen Margaret Clarke of Eastleigh, Hampshire.
Buried in Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh
COWAN, STANLEY
Leading Seaman P/JX152626.
H.M.S. "Cossack". Royal Navy.
8th November 1939. Age 36. Husband of H. Cowan of Peterborough, Northamptonshire.
Buried in Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh
HEATHERLEY, JOSEPH FREDERICK
Able Seaman P/SSX 15513
H.M.S. "Cossack" Royal Navy
8th November 1939. Age 23. Son of John and Lilian Heatherley, of Braunstone, Leicestershire.
Listed on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial
POPPLE, ROY
Ordinary Seaman P/JX753831.
H.M.S. "Cossack". Royal Navy.
8th November 1939. Age 18. Son of Clara Popple of Radford, Nottingham.
Buried in Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh
RICHMOND, THOMAS C.
Ordinary Seaman P/SSX22987.
H.M.S. "Cossack". Royal Navy. 8th November 1939. Age 18. Son of Leonard and Ann Richmond of Salford Lancashire.
Buried in Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh
Note although A.B. Heatherley is listed on the headstone he is not buried in Leith according to the CWGC. The CWGC deatils also list the deaths as 8th November but the headstone gives the date 7th November.
Adam
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