
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Inverness
- Town
- Inverness
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 16/11/1919
Attended by: Rev. Donald MacLeod
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 57669
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Current location
On the east wall
Old High Church
Church Street
Inverness
Inverness
Highland
IV1 1EY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 66467 45489
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Beaten copper plaque with badge of the Arab Rifles (an AR monogram within a laurel wreath) depicted on it. Possibly JLM monogram at bottom
- Inscription
- TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF/ JOHN LACHLAN MACKINTOSH/ LIEUTENANT IN THE ARAB RIFLES WHO/ WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN EAST AFRICA/ ON JANUARY 8, 1916 AGED 22 YEARS. DULCE ET DECORUA EST PRO PATRIA / MORI
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Mackintosh, John Lachlan
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, place of death, forenames, manner of death, age of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 220mm, width 220mm
Materials: Copper
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Dedication Dundee Courier - Monday 17 November 1919
- Dedication Aberdeen Weekly Journal - Friday 21 November 1919
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