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Comely Bank Cemetery, Edinburgh

 
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Adam Brown



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:54 pm    Post subject: Comely Bank Cemetery, Edinburgh Reply with quote

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226 WW1 CWGC graves

The high number is due to a major military hospital being nearby during the war.
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Caroline



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Scottish Genealogy Society recently published a book of the gravestones in Comely Bank, which includes all the CWGC ones, of course. Many of them died in the infulenza epidemic after the Great War, as there was a hospital nearby.
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