
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
- 79525
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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
- Large ornamental headstone of black granite on top of a large light grey granite plinth. The headstone is of neoclassical design with carved floral and urn designs on the front. The top of the headstone stands an ornamental Urn below which the stone curves in various directions. The inscription is engraved into the stone and highlighted with white paint.
- Inscription
- R.I.P. / IN LOVING MEMORY / OF / ALICE HORNSBY, / WIFE OF RICHARD MACMAHON / WHO DIED 27. MAY 1909, / AGED 50 YEARS. / ALSO THE ABOVE / RICHARD MACMAHON, / WHO DIED 14. JULY 1915, / AGED 57 YEARS. / ALSO THEIR SONS / RICHARD MACMAHON, / KILLED IN FRANCE, 20 NOV. 1915 / AGED 38 YEARS. / DANIEL (DAN) MACMAHON, / WHO DIED 28. MARCH 1923, / AGED 39 YEARS. / "GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN." / "THOU ART CALLED AWAY FROM EARTHLY CARE / AND WE DO MOURN FOR THEE, / BUT WE HOPE TO MEET YOU BY AND BY / BEYOND LIFE'S TROUBLED SEA."
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Macmahon, Richard
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, manner of death, place of death, date of death, age
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Gravestone
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Black
- Gravestone
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- CWGC - www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/450494/richard-mcmahon/
- Find a Grave - Wulverghem - www.findagrave.com/memorial/12736206/richard-macmahon_mcmahon
- Private, 71984, Richard MacMahon, 27th Battalion Canadian Infantry. He used surname of McMahon during the war.
- Find a Grave - Tomnahurich - www.findagrave.com/memorial/182543463/richard-macmahon
- Canadian National Archive - central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B7100-S058
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