
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
- 79541
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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
- Addition to upright, pink granite, family gravestone on a double footer - the lower of rough granite and the upper of pink dressed granite. There is a heavy curved top with the letter 'M' incised in the centre. The lettering is incised in cream.
- Inscription
- …./AND THEIR ONLY SON/CAPTAIN DAVID MELVILLE M.C./4TH BATT. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS/WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM ON 25TH OCTOBER 1918/AGE 22 YEARS INTERRED IN HARLEBEKE CEMETERY, BELGIUM/….
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Melville, David
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, place of burial, decorations
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
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