Inverness
The Statue outside Inverness Railway station is believed to be the 1st war memorial in Inverness.
MONUMENT DETAILS
The panels and plinths bear the following details:
SOUTH face (Academy Street side)
Panel: (blank at top and centre)
TEL EL KEBIR (at foot)
(September 13, 1882)
Plinth:
Killed at Tel-El-Kebir (16 names)
Died at Cairo (10 names)
EAST face (Eastgate side)
ATBARA
(Battle of Atbara 8th April 1898)
Killed and died of wounds (18 names)
Died of disease (10 names)
KOSHEH
(Fort Kosheh, Sudan, fighting took place in December 1885)
Plinth:
Killed up the Nile (30 names)
WEST face (Highland Rail House side)
KHARTOUM
(Battle of Omdurman, in Khartoum State on 2nd Sept 1898)
Killed and died of wounds (3 names)
Died of disease (21 names)
EGYPT
Plinth: (This gives the original purpose for the memorial)
79th.
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
Erected by the officers, non commissioned officers
and men, past and present, in memory of their
comrades who died in Egypt
1882 - 1887.
Nominal Roll of officers, non commissioned officers
and men who were killed in action or died of wounds or
disease contracted in Egypt and the Sudan.
NORTH Face (Station entrance)
Panel blank at top and centre
GINNISS
(Battle of Ginnis was in Sudan - took place December 30, 1885)
Plinth:
List of 35 names (ending with 'Boy William Rollo')
God Bless them all. We SHALL remember.
Location: Inverness
Original line: Inverness and Nairn Railway
Photographer: Crinan Dunbar
Contact photographer: Crinan Dunbar
Date: 18/04/2023
Image number: 86574
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