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FortyTwa
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 Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 11:59 am Post subject: Nigg (St Fittick) Old Churchyard **complete** |
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Nigg (St Fittick) Old Churchyard
Country: United Kingdom
Locality: Aberdeenshire
There is one CWGC identified casualty in this now isolated and, sadly, neglected and mistreated old cemetery overlooking Nigg Bay.
 
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FortyTwa
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| Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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The headstone notes Peter Carnegie died at Raasay Island, Inverness-shire
CWGC record
CARNEGIE, PETER ALEXANDER
Rank: Private
Service No: 60310
Date of Death: 22/02/1919
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Defence Corps 206th Protection Coy.
Grave Reference North-East of ruin.
Cemetery NIGG (ST. FITTICK) OLD CHURCHYARD
Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Agnes Caie Carnegie, of 15, Fore Close, Torry, Aberdeen.
No SNWM record - I should have thought there would be.
and his brother
CWGC record
CARNEGIE, CHARLES
Rank: Private
Service No: S/43139
Date of Death: 04/10/1917
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference Panel 132 to 135 and 162A.
Memorial TYNE COT MEMORIAL
SNWM record
Surname CARNEGIE
Firstname Charles
Service Number S/43139
Date Death 04/10/1917
Decoration
Place of birth
Other 2nd Bn. formerly 3162 Gordon High.
SNWM roll THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
Rank Pte
Theatre of death F.& F.
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FortyTwa
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| Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Family headstone which, like many, is suffering badly from accidental/deliberate loss of lead lettering.
 
CWGC record
BUCHAN, RICHARD
Rank: Private
Service No: 3340
Date of Death: 11/04/1917
Age: 35
Regiment/Service: South African Infantry 4th Reg.
Grave Reference XXII. F. 12.
Cemetery ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information: Youngest son of John and Margaret Buchan, of Torry, Aberdeen, Scotland.
No SNWM record - should there be?
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FortyTwa
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| Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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And a late Colonel of the Kings Royal Irish Hussars buried in an adjacent family plot
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