GLAMIS

 

 

Location:  In the village across the road from the castle entrance, at the junction of the A928 and the Main St  

 

OS ref:   54: NO 382 466

 

Date: January 1921

 

 

'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO
THE UNDYING MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF GLAMIS PARISH WHO
FELL IN THE GREAT WAR'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Includes Captain The Hon.Fergus Bowes-Lyons, brother of the Queen Mother and Uncle of the Queen.

 

Details from cwg site:

 

Name: BOWES-LYON, The Hon. FERGUS
Rank: Captain
Regiment: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders),   8th Bn
Age: 26
Date of Death: 27/09/1915   (killed in the opening stages of the Battle of Loos)
Additional information: Son of 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, of Glamis Castle, Forfarshire; husband of Lady Christian Bowes-Lyon (now Lady Christian Martin). Educated at Eton. Previously served with 2nd Bn. in India.
Memorial: Loos Memorial

 

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