
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
- 79229
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Current location
Tomnahurich Cemetery
Bruce Gardens
Inverness
Inverness
Highland
IV3 5ER
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 65542 44459
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Black granite headstone on top of a concrete plinth. The headstone on the edges tapers away and the top is shouldered which steps up to a diagonal top below which is an ornamental 'G' design. The lettering is engraved and painted white.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF / PETER GORDON / BELOVED HUSBAND OF ISABELLA GORDON / DIED AT CRAIGELLACHIE, MILLBURN / 8 SEPTEMBER 1914, AGED 71 / AND THEIR SONS /JOHN, KILLED IN ACTION / AT FESTUBERT, 18. MAY 1915 AGED 24. / FINLAY, KILLED IN ACTION / AT PASSCHENDAELE, 31. JULY 1917 / AGED 29. / ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER / JAMESINA ISABELLA, / WHO DIED AT DELL HOUSE, MILLBURN / 19. SEPTEMBER 1938, AGED 55. / AND THE SAID / ISABELLA GORDON, / WHO ALSO DIED THERE / 12. OCTOBER 1944, AGED 89.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Gordon, Finlay
Gordon, John
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, relationships, manner of death, date of death, age
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 - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- CWGC - John Gordon - www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/856928/JOHN GORDON/
- Finlay Gordon, Private, S/26204, 6th Cameron Highlanders and John Gordon, Corporal, 1711, 4th Cameron Highlanders
- Find a Grave - Finlay Gordon - www.findagrave.com/memorial/12048310/finlay-gordon
- CWGC -Finlay Gordon - www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/931320/FINLAY GORDON/
- Find a Grave - John Gordon - www.findagrave.com/memorial/15276135/john-gordon
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