Photos of Graves

[Hugh MacLean]

Hello Adam,

I live in Lochaber and could probably pick a good few of ours if you still require them. They are quite spread out so not sure how soon I can get them.

[LesleyB]

Hi Adam
Migth be able to help with some of those Fife ones. It would likely be a couple of weeks yet though, until I can go look.

Best wishes
Lesley

[AndrewP]

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Stirling
Blanefield . Location: Jcn of Glasgow Rd & Carsiedene
Inversnaid . Location: Not Known
Monyabroch . Location: Not Known
Buchanan . Location: Not Known
Dunblane (second memorial?) . Location: The Haugh (inc bridge)
Fintry . Location: Stained Glass Window
Gargunnock . Location: The Square, Fountain
St Lawrence . Location: Not Known

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Hi Adam,

I think you may already have Monyabroch and St Lawrence under their modern names of Kilsyth and Slamannan.

All the best,

AndrewP

[Adam Brown]

Many thanks to all who replied

Lesley & Hugh

Any help is gratefully recieved but because it's all voluntary there's no pressure to photograph them or submit them. If it takes weeks or months to get them it's up to you.


Andrew P

That's a great update. We rely on local knowledge to keep us right and where a parish and community have different names it's not always obvious that two references are about one memorial. I'll cross them of our list.

Kind Regards

Adam

[Adam Brown]

Just thought I'd give a quick update on the forums.

We have over 3,000 Scottish war memorials to date on the War Memorials Project Forum

We have over 14,000 Scottish graves to date on the War Graves Project Forum.

Unlike some other societies, websites or burial groups we publish all the photographs on the internet rather than on a CD-Rom and it is all available to anyone in the world 24x7 for free.

Kind regards

Adam

[Adam Brown]

I thought I'd give you an update on the progress we've made lately by listing the total number of war memorials we have recorded on the SWMP forum.

These figures are based on the number of posts in each section of the forum, making adjustments for duplicates and sticky posts etc:

1400 Civic memorials
600 Church memorials
575 memorials to individuals
415 'other' memorials
315 Regimental and unit memorials, including 82 from outside Scotland
100 School memorials

I've rounded the figures up or down a little to allow for some errors in the way I've collected the numbers but that gives approximately just over 3,400 war memorials recorded to date and we're still going strong. New memorials are still being posted every week.

As you can see from the figures it's no surprise that the memorials on our high streets are the most commonly recorded. (and apart from a handful of missing memorials from the more out of the way locations we've got all the civic memorials recorded) If we go on the reasonable assumption that every Established, UF and Episcopal church in every Scottish parish had a memorial or roll then we've still a long way to go with the church memorials. Schools are another one where we've a long way to go in recording them all but we're in this for the long haul.

Another fairly new addition to the forum is our Non-Commemoration section. In research on names we sometimes come across names we can't identify in the Commonwealth War Graves Commision online database. Sometimes they can be identified under different names but sometimes their names slipped through the net. Over the past few months several names have been forwarded to the CWGC and have been accepted. Jim Grant from Aberdeenshire has been a great help to us in this process.

Over at the War Graves forum we now have over fifteen and a half thousand headstones with a military inscription posted covering nearly seven hundred cemeteries and burial grounds. That's probably about one third of the total we think there will be.

It just goes to show what the internet can do. I think it's safe to say no other country in the world has so many of its public and private memorials recorded in detail and available online in one place. Not bad for a bunch of part-time volunteers. We've no funds, no costs, no committees, no AGMs, no forms, no central admin etc but we've still recorded well over half the estimated total of Scottish War memorials in three years and made them available to anyone in the world for free.

Please take the time to dip into the forum now and again and if you have any information you can add about a memorial or a person named on a memorial please feel free to sign up and add your comments.

Kind regards

Adam