Two were born in this valley – the rest are thousands of miles from their homes. Three of the men we commemorate here were considered civilian war workers, not servicemen - volunteer lumberjacks from Newfoundland, helping the war effort by logging in the forests of Scotland. They are not the furthest from home, however: nine of our eleven war dead here belonged to the British Indian Army. All of them were soldiers of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC), a unit tasked with feeding the Indian Army and providing its fighting units with mechanised and animal transport. What were they doing anywhere near a small Highland cemetery?
Kingussie Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves
We care for only 14 graves of men who died during the Second World War in this small Speyside cemetery, but they attest to four different ways that the war touched the Highlands.
To learn more about this location, visit: https://www.cwgc.org/our-war-graves-your-history/explore-great-britain/scotland-east-region/kingussie-cemetery/
To learn more about the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, visit: http://cwgc.org