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.


