Franklin Expedition Memorial, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
Posted in Curiosities, Edinburgh at 20:00 on 9 March 2024
Walking further round Dean Cemetery I found this monument to John Irving, Lieutenant on HMS Terror, one of only two men the remains of whose bodies were returned to the UK from the Franklin Expedition:-
Close-up:-
Tags: Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Franklin Expedition, John Irving
Dan Simmons – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
13 May 2026 at 12:00
[…] It was as an SF writer that I knew of him but I did watch the TV adaptation of his novel The Terror based on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition some years ago now. I posted a photograph of a memorial to two members of the Expedition here. […]