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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject: Rigg |
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The memorial is at the entrance of Gretna Cemetery at OS Map Ref: NY 301 672.
UKNIWM 44219
No names on this memorial I am afraid.
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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This is the first time I've seen this memorial and to be honest I'm wondering what the point of it is.
Rigg wouldn't have had many war dead so why the absence of any names?
Hawick's War Memorial is the only other in the south of Scotland that I can think of that doesn't list the names on it but at least there is a book of remembrance nearby.
Very strange. _________________
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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I've had a look at SDGW and Rigg only appears 4 times:
Rigg born:
James Tuddenham, 1/6th West Riding Regt, 30/4/18
Peter Reid, 16th Notts & Derby Regt., 21/9/17
Lived in Rigg:
John Rome, MGC, 30/3/17 (also commemorated on the Gretna War Memorial)
James Lundy, 1st Royal Irish Rifles, 18/11/17 _________________
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Although UKNIWM describes this as the Rigg memorial, the cemetery is the main Gretna cemetery even though it is in Rigg! There are certainly a few war graves inside, I spotted 5 and I was only there for a few minutes.
It can't be much more than a mile to the Gretna memorial so perhaps we should consider it as belonging to Gretna cemetery rather than to Rigg.
I would be interested in the story behind it too. |
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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It's a complicated scenario with the Rigg memorial being near Gretna and the Dornoch memorial being on the fringes of Eastriggs _________________
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teddy
Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 214 Location: Penpont, Dumfriesshire
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 3:06 pm Post subject: Riggs WM |
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This Wm was orderd on 17/4/1920 by Mr. R.D. Munro, Schoolhouse, Riggs, Gretna on Log Book No 3044 from Beattie & Co Carlisle.
Cost of memorial at £90. and for 64 letters @ 14/- doz leaded of £3.14/6d. total of £93/14/66. ( prices not full total as carriage erecting etc additions)
Information collected from Beattie & Co Log Bk in July 2010.
Teddy. |
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