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Gretna disaster funeral procession and memorial
Unknown, 1915, Photograph, Press cutting
Gretna disaster funeral procession and memorial
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Page from Leith Miscellany, volume XII, Gretna disaster funeral procession and memorial
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Unknown
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1915
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Press cutting
216 soldiers of the 7th (Leith) Battalion of the Royal Scots were killed in the Quintinshill rail crash of 1915. A funeral procession was held from the Battalion's Drill Hall in Dalmeny Street to Rosebank Cemetery in Pilrig Street, where Lord Rosebery unveiled a memorial a year later.
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