Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cairn
- District
- Annandale And Eskdale
- Town
- Gretna Green
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 21 May 1995
Attended by: - Dedicated
Date: 21 May 1995 - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 44218
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Current location
Car Park
Blacksmith's Shop Visitor Centre
Gretna Green
Annandale And Eskdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG16 5EB
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NY 32139 68534
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Cairn formed of stones taken from near the site of the accident. Dedicatory bronze plaque, headed by Western Front Association emblem, on sandstone slab placed on top of the cairn. Badge of the Royal Scots on two sides of the cairn
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF/ 214 OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF/ THE 1/7TH ROYAL SCOTS/ (THE ROYAL REGIMENT0/ WHO, TOGETHER WITH A FURTHER/ 13 RAILWAYMEN AND OTHER/ PASSENGERS, DIED IN THE / QUINTINSHILL RAIL DISASTER,/ ON 22ND MAY 1915. / THE CRASH SITE, ABOUT HALF A/ MILE TO THE NORTH CAN BE SEEN/ FROM THIS SPOT./ ERECTED BY/ THE SCOTTISH AREA OF THE/ WESTERN FRONT ASSOCIATION/ MAY 1995.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cairn
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Cairn
- Condition
- Quintinshill Rail Disaster Cairn
- WMO ID: 173580
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 05-03-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Reference
- The Gallipolian Winter 2005
- Forward (Great Central Railway Society) by Great Central Railway Society No.149 (Autumn 2006) p.44.
- Scottish War Memorials Project warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic332.html
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