
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
- 79284
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Current location
Located at top of the "Fairy hill" to the right handsome towards the Kessock Bridge lookout.
Tomnahurich Cemetery
Bruce Gardens
Inverness
Inverness
Highland
IV3 5ER
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 65542 44459
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Addition to family gravestone, which is a grey granite pillar (may, in the past, have been surmounted by an urn) on a double step base with a heavy top with a triangular design on each face. The lettering is incised.
- Inscription
- …../ALSO THEIR ELDER SON/SERGT DONALD MACRAE/D.C.M./31ST CANADIANS KILLED AT/THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME/27TH SEPT. 1916/AGED 28 YEARS/AND INTERRED AT/COURCELETTE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Macrea, Donald
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, forename, relationships, rank, regiment, manner of death, place of death, date of death, age, decorations, place of burial
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Pillar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Urn
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Pillar
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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