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Reference WMO/178432

Address:

Rigg Cemetery

B721 (the old A75)

Rigg, near Gretna

DG16 5EY

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Latin cross on top of a shaft and a base, all made of rough hewn Dalbeattie (a local quarry) granite. The shaft has a carving of a sword, in relief. Made by Beatties of Carlisle. It is just inside the main gate of the Cemetery.
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IN HONOUR/OF THE MEN FROM/RIGG AND DISTRICT/WHO FELL IN THE/GREAT WARS/1914-1918/AND 1939-1945

NONE, but Note, while there are no names given the following can be identified from additions to gravestones (not listed here are the several CWGC graves)WW1- William Coupland (died 29/4/1918 at a German field hospital in France), Edward McMurray (died 26/10/1917), Samuel McGarl (died 25/9/1915), William McGarl (died 27/8/1917), John Rome (died 30/5/1917), Harold Fell (died 26/12/1918), John Phillips (died 10/7/1915), James Phillips (died 12/11/1917) and George Henry Pike (Civilian, died on 12/3/1917 of wounds incurred in an accident at Eastriggs Munitions Works)- all except the civilian are on the Gretna Civic Memorial WW2-David Stevenson Scott died 26/3/1945, James Burnett died 6/12/1944, John Edward Conroy died 20/5/1946, Ernest Nicholson died 1/10/1944, Edward T Muir died 29/8/1940, Sinclair Rayment Neale died 19/3/1946, James Kinloch died 25/10/1941, James G Bryson died 1/1/1944 and John Carruthers died 10/12/1941 (Of these Nicholson, Muir, Neale and Carruthers are on the Gretna Civic Memorial)

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