
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
- 79527
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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 light grey roughcast granite plinth. The plinth is a substantial granite block which still has the quarrying drilling holes on its face. The headstone is polished on the front with a floral design on the top two corners. The inscriptions are engraved into the stone and painted gold although the older inscriptions have lost their paint.
- Inscription
- In Loving Memory / OF OUR FATHER / JOHN MACRAE, / DIED 8TH JANUARY 1932. / OUR MOTHER / ELIZABETH DUNCAN, / DIED 14TH DECEMBER 1943. / THEIR SONS / JAMES [MACRAE], KILLED IN ACTION / ON THE SOMME, 18TH OCTOBER 1916. / RODERICK, DIED 12TH OCTOBER 1928 / AND THEIR DAUGHTERS / JESSIE, DIED 4TH MARCH 1957. / MARY, DIED 11TH DECEMBER 1969.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Macrae, James
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
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
- Private
- Reference
- CWGC - www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/803985/james-duncan-macrae/
- Private, S/22505, James Duncan Macrae, 5th Cameron Highlanders.
- Find a Grave - Thiepval - www.findagrave.com/memorial/12466837/james-duncan-macrae
- Find a Grave - Tomnahurich, Inverness - www.findagrave.com/memorial/229293721/james-duncan-macrae
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