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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