Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Battlefield cross or marker
- District
- Stewartry
- Town
- Castle Douglas
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
St Ninians Episcopal Church
St Andrew's Road
Castle Douglas
Stewartry
Dumfries And Galloway
DG7 1EX
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NX 76571 61946
Denomination: Scottish Episcopal
- Description
- A typical GRU/IWGC battlefield cross with a GRU tag on the upright and three white metal strips on the cross member .
- Inscription
- GRU 4/ CAPT F J L JOHNSTONE MC/ 2ND KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS/ AUG 29TH 1916
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Johnstone, F J L
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, initials of forenames, rank, date of death, regiment, decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Battlefield Cross or Marker
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Battlefield Cross or Marker
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1965
- Images first appeared on The Returned from the Front website thereturned.co.uk/crosses/castle-douglas/
- stninianscastledouglas.org.uk/history/the-war-memorials/
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