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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Window
- District
- Inverness
- Town
- Ardersier
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Colonial India
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1924
Attended by: Unknown - Dedicated
Date: 19 October 1930
Attended by: Rev. Wm. Graham, Ardersier, depot chaplain. - Unveiled
Date: 19 October 1930
Attended by: Brigadier K. G. Buchanan, C.M.G., D.S.O. (Commanding office of the 2nd Seaforths when the two officers were murdered). - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 13506
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Current location
Fort George Regimental Chapel
Old Military Road
Ardersier
Inverness
Highland
IV2 7TE
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 76021 56651
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Single light stained glass window depicting St Michael conquering the Devil in the form of a serpent. A black painted cast brass plaque, with the inscription unpainted in relief is attached to the window cill below. The set of drums pictured in "drumhead service configuration" in front of the window in earlier images were not so arranged in June 2024, and the picture of the two officers was absent.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF/ MAJOR FEARNLEY ANDERSON DSO MC/ AND MAJOR NORMAN ORR DSO/ 2ND BATTALION/ THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS/ KILLED AT LANDI KOTAL ON 8TH APRIL 1923
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, Fearnley
Orr, Norman
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- Colonial India
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname, rank, date of death, regiment, place of death, manner of death.
Order of information: Undefined
- Colonial India
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Window
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stained Glass - Altar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Paper - Photograph/s
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Scotsman - Monday 20 October 1930 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19301020/433/0007 MURDERED BY TRIBESMEN. Memorial to Two Seaforth Officers.
- www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205501166
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 11 August 1950 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19500811/068/0006 SEAFORTHS WHO DIED IN TWO WARS REMEMBERED Memorial Window Unveiled by Sir Kenneth Anderson OLD TRADITIONS STILL IN SAFE KEEPING
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 20 October 1930 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19301020/146/0008 IN MEMORY OF SEAFORTHS. Officers Who Fell By Treachery. O.C.’S TRIBUTE AT FORT-GEORGE.
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