Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Addition to gravestone
- District
- Inverness
- Town
- Inverness
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 80014
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Current location
Old High Church
Church Street
Inverness
Inverness
Highland
IV1 1EY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 66467 45489
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Addition to family gravestone. Note that William Robertson cannot be found on the CWGC lists, the HMS Ocean Prince was a hired trawler, and survived the war, so there are few clues to what happened to William
- Inscription
- …../AND HIS SONS WILLIAM [ROBERTSON], DROWNED/ON H.M.S. OCEAN PRINCE/SEPT. 1916/ALEXANDER, 20 BATT. AUST./KILLED 30 JULY 1916/GEORGE, 5TH CAM. KILLED 12 OCT 1917/…..
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Robertson, Alexander
Robertson, George
Robertson, William
See details for all 3 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, relationships, regiment/service, manner of death, date of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Gravestone
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Gravestone
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
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