Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Addition to gravestone
- District
- City Of Edinburgh
- Town
- Edinburgh
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 88671
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Current location
Gravestone 17 in the Church Guide. Directly behind the chancel
near the Princes Street side of the graveyard
St John the Evangelist Church
junction of Lothian Road and Princes Street
Edinburgh
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
EH2 4BJ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 24749 73659
Denomination: Scottish Episcopal
- Description
- Addition to family gravestone
- Inscription
- [not known, but described as 'Cdr Spencer Forbes RN 1874-1914, killed in the Battle of Coronel, Chile']
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Gravestone
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Gravestone
- Condition
- Cdr Spencer Dundas Forbes
- WMO ID: 170930
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 13-04-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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