2012
NS4075 : The Jackson Memorial
taken 11 years ago, near to Bellsmyre, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
The Jackson Memorial
This memorial is one of several that are arranged in a ring near the main entrance of the cemetery (compare a picture of NS4075 : The Brock Family Memorial, where the Jackson Memorial is visible in the left background; likewise, the Brock Memorial can be seen in the present photograph, behind and to the left of the base of the cross).
This ringed Celtic cross was carved by J Gilfillan (NS4075 : The Gilfillan Memorial). Among those commemorated in its inscription is "John Jackson, Lieut 9th A&SH [Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders], born 26th October 1888, killed in Gretna Railway Disaster, 22 May 1915".
The event referred to was Britain's worst rail disaster, and it occurred beside the signal box at Quintinshill (NY3169 : Site of Quintinshill Rail Crash); see NT2675 : Gretna Rail Disaster Memorial, Rosebank Cemetery.
Two other officers who died as a result of the Quintinshill disaster are buried within a few miles of here: one of them in Helensburgh Cemetery ( Link ), and the other at Boturich Castle (NS3884 : Boturich Castle Loch Lomond).
This ringed Celtic cross was carved by J Gilfillan (NS4075 : The Gilfillan Memorial). Among those commemorated in its inscription is "John Jackson, Lieut 9th A&SH [Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders], born 26th October 1888, killed in Gretna Railway Disaster, 22 May 1915".
The event referred to was Britain's worst rail disaster, and it occurred beside the signal box at Quintinshill (NY3169 : Site of Quintinshill Rail Crash); see NT2675 : Gretna Rail Disaster Memorial, Rosebank Cemetery.
Two other officers who died as a result of the Quintinshill disaster are buried within a few miles of here: one of them in Helensburgh Cemetery ( Link ), and the other at Boturich Castle (NS3884 : Boturich Castle Loch Lomond).
Dumbarton Cemetery :: NS4076
The cemetery was formally opened on the 4th of October, 1854, replacing the overcrowded parish churchyard. See the Geograph article "Dumbarton Cemetery" – Link – for a detailed discussion. For biographies of many of those buried here, and for descriptions of their memorials, see Donald MacLeod's "The God's Acres of Dumbarton" (1888), and the same author's "Dumbarton: Its Recent Men and Events" (1898). By 2010, there was concern that Dumbarton Cemetery would run out of space within a decade; New Dumbarton Cemetery – Link – was subsequently created uphill from the existing cemetery, and opened at the end of December 2015.
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- Grid Square
- NS4075, 195 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Lairich Rig (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Friday, 7 December, 2012 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Monday, 24 December, 2012
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
NS 4090 7595 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:57.0096N 4:32.9719W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: NS 4090 7595
- View Direction
- WEST (about 270 degrees)
