Photos of Graves

[Adam Brown]

For eighteen months a group of people with an interest in Scottish war memorials have been freely sharing their photographs, transcriptions and knowledge to anyone with access to the internet. Over the last few months many of those people have also been sharing their Scottish gravestone photographs via the same format - a free to join and free to browse internet forum.

The members of these two projects have one aim. To freely share their research with people in Scotland and all over the world.

The response we've had in such a short space of time has been fantastic. We already have photographs and information on over two thousand war memorials and over seven thousand gravestones posted from members all over Scotland and overseas. We know from feedback that it is a great resource for many people. So much so that what started out as a place to share information with like-minded hobbyists is now turning into something greater.

We are now in a position where we seriously hope to record ALL of Scotland's war memorials and all the gravestones with military transcriptions

It's worth pointing out that this project has all been done informally and voluntarily and for no financial gain. We are not affiliated to any organisation and everything that has been done to date has been done by people joining our forums and contributing their own photographs, transcriptions and data in their own time. Not one penny has been sought in funding from public bodies and not one penny is charged to anyone to use the forums. It's all free, and it's all done by volunteers.

To complete our undertaking so everyone with an interest in Scottish genealogy can benefit we now need more people to join us. The members who have contributed so far can only cover so much ground. What we want is others out there with similar interests to help add their local knowledge to these two national projects.

People from all over Scotland and the rest of the world can currently access data on war memorials and graves for many parts of our country but with a combined effort we can cover them from the Borders to Shetland and Aberdeenshire to the Western Isles. As far as we know no other country in the world would have such a comprehensive and free resource available at the touch of a keyboard.

Please take the time to visit the two Project forums Scottish War Memorials Project and Scottish War Graves Project and if you think you can help us complete these Scottish genealogical resources please sign up.

Regards

The Administrators and Members of the,
Scottish War Memorials Project
Scottish War Graves Project

[Liz Turner]

Adam

This looks like an extremely interesting project and I'm sure the more people get to hear about it, the more support you are likely to get. I'm off to check out your sites and if I can add some photos from my own locality, I will.

Good luck with the project.

Liz

Returning later ... Adam, there's some great photos - I looked particularly at Renfrewshire, which is where I live.

[Adam Brown]

Liz

Thanks for the kind words. Although we've been around for a while we don't seem to be that well known and I'm hoping posting here on a national forum will help spread the word.

I know there are lots of people out there interested in their own war memorials and local cemeteries and it would be great if they could share their knowledge and make it available to those in other parts of Scotland and all over the world.

Just the other week we were able to help someone from New Zealand find a relative's name on a war memorial and a great uncle's grave in a local cemetetry. He will visit both when he comes to Scotland later this year. Without our forums he may have never known they were there to visit.

Regards

Adam

[LesleyB]

Hi Adam
Good idea to post here on TS - there is quite an overlap of interests with our two forums.

I'm already a member of your site and have posted photographs of a War Memorial Stained Glass Window at Neilston recently. It is a wonderful resource and deserves all the support you can drum up! =D>

Best wishes
Lesley

[Anne H]

Hi Adam,

I've been on your site several times and although I don't have photographs to post I've spent many an hour looking through all the wonderful photos.

All of the contributors do a marvelous job and obviously with such dedication. I found one posted by Anne Anderson that I'm looking into.

Cheers to all you dedicated and special people for a job well done!

Regards,
Anne H

[Adam Brown]

Thanks to all who replied. It's probably worth mentioneing something else. Although right now we are looking for photographs we are actually looking for any information about the memorials. We would like to know about the fundraising, the unveilings, if the memorial has been moved etc. We want to know the criteria for inclusion of a name on the memorial, we want to know more about the people behind the names, photos of those named and anything else of interest.

Because it is a forum format it means anyone can update any information no matter how small. (the more the better obviously!)

The only thing we ask is that the discussions are kept on-topic as much as possible.

Here's an example of what we are after..

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=289

Regards

Adam

[Adam Brown]

Just a quick update on our progress.

The Scottish War Memorial Project now has over 1200 out of 1,378 Scottish civic war memorials listed on our free to access forum.

We only need 155 more memorials to complete the list. A large number of these missing memorials are in the Highland Council area and we would appreciate it if anyone in the North of Scotland who lives in or is visiting the more remote corners of Scotland could help the project by photographing any of the following memorials:

List last updated 18th August 2008

Sutherland

Stoer . Location: Stoer Church (Although this memorial is in a church and the parish memorial for Assynt is in Lochinver this memorial was considered the community's memorial when it was erected in the 1920s)

Caithness

Ackergill and Hempriggs. Location: Not Known
Auckengill. Location: St Clare Hall
Bower. Location: Not Known
Canisbay. Location: Not Known
Castletown and Olrig. Location: Main Street. Os Ref ND 1940 6796
Dunnet. Location: Not Known
Keiss. Location: Not Known
Stroma. Location: Stroma Kirk

Inverness

Cannich. Location: Not Known
Errogie, Gorthleck and Stratherrick. Location: Not Known
Foyers. Location: Not Known
Smithton. Location: Not Known
Urray. Location: Not Known
Westhill (Highland). Location: Not Known

Lochaber

Blaich. Location: Not Known
Glenshiel. Location: Not Known
Inverie. Location: Not Known
Lochaline. Location: Beside Loch. OS Ref NM 6780 4443
Moidart. Location: Not Known
Morvern. Location: Near Ferinish Church, Bonnavoulin. OS Ref NM 5640 5226
Roy Bridge. Location: Not Known
Spean Bridge. Location: Not Known
Strontian, Great War Memorial. Location: Not Known
Strontian, Second World War Memorial. Location: Not Known

Ross & Cromarty

Achiltibuie . Location: North of village overlooking coast. OS Ref: NC 019 090
Cromarty: Location: Off Denny Road.
Fodderty & Strathpeffer . Location: War memorial Gate, Fodderty Graveyard
Logie Easter aka Kildary & Milton or Kilmuir & Logie. Location: Opposite Logie Easter Church. OS Ref: NH 7791 7558
Muir of Ord . Location: On hill overlooking village.
Munlochy . Location: South of village, beside B9161. Near ruined church.
Nigg (Highland) . Location: In churchyard
North Kessock . Location: Not Known
Resolis . Location: At junction of B9163 and road to Alnessferry
Strathconon & Milton . Location: OS Ref: NH 309 553
Tain . Location: St. Duthac's Collegiate Church & churchyard, Castle Brae

Skye

Carbost, Minginish & Bracadale. Location: Near Talisker Distillery
Roag, Harlosh and Bay. Location: Not Known
Snizort. Location: Not Known
Staffin. Location: Not Known
Uig (Kilmuir. Location: Not Known
Vaternish. Location: Not Known

Small Islands

Eigg, Canna, Rum and Muck War Memorial, Isle of Eigg. Location: Cul nam Pairc, Cleadale, Eigg
Raasay, Isle of Raasay. Location: Beside road between ferry and village

I can post a list of the other memorials we still need from other parts of Scotland if anyone is interested.

Regards

Adam

[LesleyB]

Hi Adam

I can post a list of the other memorials we still need from other parts of Scotland if anyone is interested.

Certainly wouldn't do any harm - there may be TS members who live in the areas you are interested in, and who may be able to help out.

Best wishes
Lesley

[joette]

This is a bit of a hobby of mine & I have photos info on several war Memorials.Sounds great!
Would love to see the missing memorials list to see if I have info on any.

[Adam Brown]

Joette

If you have an interest in war memorials we'd love to see you on the war memorial forum. It may be that you don't just have photographs of memorials we don't have but you may have other photographs of memorials we already have posted which would be of interest to our members.
Just because a memorial has already been recorded it doesn't mean we don't want more posts about it.

Here is the list of the other missing memorials. Since my last post we've had a few more posted so the total missing is now down from 168 to only 149.



Aberdeenshire
Auchenblae. Location: Summit of Gilbert's Hill
Blairdaff. Location: Parish Church (Ruined)
Clochcan. Location: Beside B9030. NJ 930 401
Culvie. Location: In private ownership
Gardenstown and Gamrie. Location: Parish Church
Glenbervie. Location: Parish Church
Glenbuchat. Location: Parish Church
Inverkeithny. Location: Parish Church
Logie Buchan. Location: Bridge
Longmanhill. Location: Public Hall
New Leeds. Location: Kininmonth Parish Church
New Pitsligo. Location: Park in village Centre
Newburgh (Aberdeenshire). Location: Not known
Ord. Location: Parish Church (Redundant)
Toll of Birness and Ardallie. Location: Parish Church (Redundant)
Westhill (Aberdeenshire). Location: Not known

City of Aberdeen
Brimmond Hill . Location: At Summit of Brimmond Road, Aberdeen

Argyll & Bute - Cowal
Dunoon and Cowal . Location: At edge of Dunoon Castle Gardens on Argyll Steet
Strachur . Location: Strachur Public Hall

Argyll & Bute - Helensburgh
Cove and Kilgreggan . Location: Town Hall
Rosneath . Location: Not known

Argyll & Bute - Islands
Gigha, Second World War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Bridgend (Islay) . Location: At Bridge
Kilmeny & Ballygrant . Location: In Church
Port Charlotte . Location: South of village
Portnahaven . Location: In village
Craighouse, Second World War, Thanksgiving Memorial . Location: In church
Kilmory (Mull) . Location: Plaque in church
Lochbuie . Location: N/K
Scarinish . Location: N/K

Argyll & Bute - Kintyre
Kilberry . Location: Plaque in church
Muasdale . Location: Pulpit in church
Clachan . Location: Plaque in Church

Argyll & Bute - Lorn
Appin . Location: Appin Church
Benderloch, Great War Memorial . Location: Achnaba Church
Benderloch, Second World War Memorial . Location: Achnaba Church
Connel . Location: Connel Church of Scotland
Dalmally . Location: At road junction opposite Hotel

Argyll & Bute - Mid Argyll
Ford . Location: Parish Church
Glassary . Location: In church
Kilmartin, Second World War Memorial . Location: Not known
Minard . Location: Not known

East Ayrshire
Drongan . Location: Not known
Rankinson . Location: Not known
Sorn . Location: Not known

Isle of Arran (North Ayrshire)
Brodick . Location: Not known

North Ayrshire
Kilbirnie, Glengarnock, WW2 . Location: New Primary School
Springside . Location: Not known

South Ayrshire
Girvan, Boer War Memorial . Location: Girvan Cemetery
Maidens . Location: Not known
Mossblown . Location: Not known

City of Edinburgh
Parkside . Location: East Preston Street Cemetery
Crammond . Location: Crammond Kirk

Fife
Ceres, Great War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Ceres, Second World War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Crossgates . Location: Community Centre aka War Memorial Institute
Gateside Memorial Hall . Location: Village Hall
Newport Boer War . Location: Vicarsford
Rosyth . Location: Parish Church

City of Glasgow
Gorbals . Location: Gorbals Rose Garden

East Dunbartonshire
Lenzie . Location: Public Hall

Midlothian
Newbattle . Location: Newbattle Church
Temple . Location: Parish Church (Redundant)

East Renfrewshire
Uplawmoor . Location: Not known
Busby . Location: Not known
Waterfoot . Location: Not known

Inverclyde
Inverclyde . Location: Not known

Renfrewshire
Bishopton . Location: Not known
Brookfield . Location: Not known
Erskine . Location: Not known
Hawkhead . Location: Not Known
Inchinnan . Location: OS Ref no. NC 719 482
Langbank . Location: Not known
Linwood . Location: Not known

Shetland
Aithsting & Sandsting . Location: Not Known
Bressay Great War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Bressay, Second World War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Fetlar . Location: Fetlar Church
Foula . Location: Not Known
Northmavine . Location: Not Known
Papa Stour . Location: Papa Stour Church
Sandwick (Shetland), Community, Great War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Scalloway . Location: Not Known
South Nesting . Location: School
Whalsay, Island, Great War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Whalsay, Island, Second World War Memorial . Location: Parish Church
Whiteness and Weisdale . Location: Not Known

Clackmannan
Dollar, Great War Memorial . Location: Parish Church

Stirling
Blanefield . Location: Jcn of Glasgow Rd & Carsiedene
Inversnaid . 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

Western Isles
Bornais & South Uist . Location: Beside A685
Carinish / North Usit . Location: Not Known
Eriskay . Location: Not Known
Griminish & Benbecula . Location: Junction of A865 and lane to Griminish

Regards

Adam