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Overall View of the memorial area - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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Overall View of the Roll of Honour - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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The top part - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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The middle part - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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The bottom - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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The general remembrance prayer - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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Left hand side of the bottom dedication - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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Right hand side of the bottom dedication - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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Left hand side of the top dedication - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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Centre part of the top dedication - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
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Right part of the top dedication - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 07 Sep 2022
Reference WMO/178168
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GRETNA/SEVENTH DAY OF APRIL-NINETEEN HUNDRED & FORTY-ONE/Victims of the Tragedy/The tragedy affected the lives of families on both sides of the border. The Masonic meeting drew/Masons from a wide area of Dumfriesshire and Cumbria to their meeting. Wartime censorship prevented any official list of those who died being published. Research carried out with the help of the Registration officials at Gretna and Carlisle and using the minutes of the Lodge meeting of/April 7th means that a full list of those who died can now be published./ [names]/ Victims who died at the Cumberland Infirnary, Carlisle/ [names]/ The Memorial Cairn in the East Garden of All Saints Episcopal Church, Gretna is dedicated to/those who died 7th April 1941. The Memorial was designed and constructed by E. Taylor/Stonemason, Gretna and Blessed and Dedicated by Rt Revd JM Taylor, Bishop of Glasgow and/Galloway on 24th July 1996. Funded by Gretna and Rigg Community Council/WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM.
Helen Graham, 14, domestic servant, Gretna/ John Bell, provision agent, Carlisle/ Robert Bell, 46, railway clerk, Annan/ John Broatch, 32, blacksmith, Annan/ Stanley Carlyle, 38, boilermaker, Annan/ William Cochrane, 25, railway surfaceman, Gretna Green/ James Connoly, 51, railway engine driver, Dumfries/ Hugh Crawford, 59, railway cashier, Dumfries/ Robert Gourley, 37, electrical engineer, Carlisle/ Stephen Gwyer, 42, Royal Navy recruiter, Dumfries/ Peter Henderson, 62, boot shop manager, Annan/ Frederick Horseburgh, 30, grocer, Gretna/ William Irving, 78, master builder, Gretna/ John Kilgour, 57, tailor and draper, Longtown/ James Little Noble, 48, forester, Rigg/ Francis Phillips, 55, corporation clerk, Carlisle/ Jeremiah Reed, 37, scrap merchant, Annan/ William Ross, 41, Royal Marines recruiter, Dumfries/ Arthur Shelley, 43, sanitary inspector, Carlisle/ Benjamin Smith, 44, farmer, Old Graitney, Gretna/ Herbert Smith, 38, hotel manager, Carlisle/ John Stafford, 71, minister of religion, Gretna Green/ William Telfer Steel, 39, butcher, Carlisle/ William West, 32, egg and poultry dealer, Rigg/ Thomas Young, 34, coal agent, Springfield/ Victims who died at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle/ Thomas Beattie, 60, lithographer, Gretna/ Stanley Burns, 38, draughtsman, Annan/ John Robertson, 46, butcher’s shop manager, Annan
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