Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Addition to gravestone
- District
- Annandale And Eskdale
- Town
- Rigg, near Gretna
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 45969
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Current location
6th row from west boundary wall
6th stone from the south wall
Rigg Cemetery
B721
the old A75
Rigg
near Gretna
Annandale And Eskdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG16 5EY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NY 30056 67235
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Addition to family gravestone
- Inscription
- ..... ALSO/PTE ERNEST NICHOLSON/EAST YORKS REGT/TWIN BROTHER OF THE ABOVE [VIOLET]/WHO WAS KILLED AT NIJMEGEN/BRIDGE HEAD, HOLLAND/1ST OCT 1944 AGED 25 YEARS...
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Nicholson, Ernest
See details - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, relationships, rank, regiment, manner of death,place of death, date of death, age
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Gravestone
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Gravestone
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- CWGC Entry-www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2661325/NICHOLSON, ERNEST
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