A Month of Scottish Gravestones - Memorials

 In addition to gravestones, we often see memorials. Sometimes these are in graveyards, sometimes they are elsewhere. But they are always to pay honour to a person or group of people who have played a part in history. 

Here are a few samples: 

This stone and the one below commemorate the martyrs who died for their religious beliefs (Covenanters) during the Killing Times. Both memorials are in Glasgow 

Perhaps the more familiar of the memorials, this is the cairn on Culloden Moor dedicated to the soldiers who lost their lives during the '45 rising

This memorial is in Rogart, Sutherland and is made from the stones plucked from the rubble of the home of the grandparents of Sir John A MacDonald. His grandparents were part of the Sutherland Clearances. This is dedicated to Sir John

This memorial is in Scalloway, Shetland and is in memory of those who died on the Shetland Bus

This memorial is in Kirkwall Cathedral and commemorates the men of the Royal Oak which sank in Scapa Flow

Another memorial to the Covenanters, this one in Deerness, Orkney where 200 bodies washed ashore

Outside of Glencoe is this memorial to those who lost their lives in the Glencoe Massacre

This is the Commando Memorial outside of Spean Bridge

This memorial is in Princes St Gardens and memorializes Wojtek the soldier bear who served with the Polish military during WWII

A memorial in Princes St Gardens to Sir James Young Simpson who promoted the benefit of chloroform to ease the pain of childbirth

And this memorial is to Robert Louis Stevenson. It adorns a wall in St Giles Cathedral