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:-

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Posted in Edinburgh at 12:00 on 6 March 2024
Several gravestones in Edinburgh’s Dean Cemetery contain dedications to those who died on active service.
Anthony Norman, Lothians and Border Horse, killed in action 20/2/1943, aged 29:-

David S C Turnbull, Lt. Black Watch and Royal Flying Corps, 1/4/1917:-

Harry Youmger, killed at St Valery, 19/6/1941, aged 41 and Laurence Younger, fell in action, Tunisia, 1943:-

Oswald Stanley Brown, 2nd Lt, 1st Black Watch, killed in action in France 22/12/1915:-

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Posted in Edinburgh, War Memorials at 12:00 on 4 March 2024
Dean Cemetery is right next to the former Dean Gallery now known as Modern Two.
On a visit last May we took a stroll through the cemetery and I came across this, which appeared to be a Crimean War Memorial:-

The plaque reads, “In memory of 369 non-commissioned Officers and men of the 79th Highlanders who died in Bulgaria and the Crimea or fell in action during the campaign of 1854-5,” with beow that on the stone steps “Alma” and “Sevastopol”.
Close-up on plaque:-

However, a plaque on the other side of the memorial is dedicated to the East Indies Campaign of 1857-1871:-

On the step below it is commemorated “Lucknow”:-

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