Category Archives: Dundee

On par with its counterparts in Balgay and the Western, Dundee’s Eastern Cemetery contains some impressive memorials, many commemorating deceased industrial magnates and their families. The headstone of George Crammond is among the less ornate, but still distinguished. It is a polished granite plinth adorned with a Greek urn, similar to that of fellow Dundonian,Continue reading “Remembering George Crammond”

I returned to Dundee’s Balgay Cemetery today. ‘Boy’ Albert Victor Patterson rests in a familial grave of Section C towards the eastern end of the cemetery. Albert succumbed to influenza and pneumonia on December 10 at the Alexandra Military Hospital, Westminster, aged seventeen (the headstone states eighteen). Albert Victor Patterson was born on November 3Continue reading “Remembering Albert Victor Patterson”

The Shaw family headstone is easily missed among the ornate monuments to Dundee’s industrial magnates in the Western Cemetery. So is the tragic story of Jane Shaw and her family. Young Jane died from influenza and broncho-pneumonia at 31 Seafield Road, Dundee, on January 31 1919, aged only four. She was the third of theContinue reading “Remembering Jane Dickson Clark Shaw”

The Western Cemetery in Dundee is an impressive site. Situated on a hillside overlooking the River Tay, it is the resting place for many Dundonians who gained significant wealth from the city’s textile and manufacturing industries. Their graves are marked by elaborate monuments. In contrast, the grave of Marguerite Robertson is more modest. She isContinue reading “Remembering Marguerite Robertson”

Today I returned to Dundee’s Balgray Cemetery. William Cameron (Jr) rests on the southern edge of the Cemetery in a familial lair. He died from influenza and cardiac syncope on the 16th of November 1918 aged only twelve. William Cameron Jr was born on the 27th of April 1906 at 10 Benvie Road to lorryContinue reading “Remembering William Cameron”