War Graves, Edinburgh
Posted in Edinburgh, War Graves at 20:00 on 20 April 2016
These were both in New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh.
M Miller, Royal Scots, 5/8/1916, age 36.
There was an unusaul communal gravestone for seamen of the Merchant Navy Merchant Navy inscribed, “Five Sailors of the 1939-45 War, MV Atheltemplar, 1/3/1941.”
On 1/3/1941 the Atheltemplar was attacked by Heinkel 111s off the Aberdeenshire coast. A total of 12 crewmembers died. This stone commemorates the five who were unidentified.
Tags: First World War, WWII, Heinkel 111, MV Atheltemplar, New Calton Burial Ground, Second World War, the Great War, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, Commonwealth War Graves, WW2, Edinburgh, WWI