The Arras Memorial to the Missing


Arras Memorial to the Missing

The name of John Stewart is recorded on the tablets of The Arras Memorial to the Missing. It is located
within the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras and bears the names of over 35,000 men who
fell in the battlefields surrounding Arras between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918 with the
exception of The Battle of Cambrai in 1917 and who have no known grave.

 

The Arras Memorial, Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery

The entrance to the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras


The Arras Memorial, France

The inscription at the entrance to the Arras Memorial.
It reads

1914-1918
HERE ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF 35942 OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE FORCES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO FELL IN THE
BATTLES OF ARRAS OR IN AIR OPERATIONS ABOVE THE
WESTERN FRONT AND WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE

 

Gordon Highlanders names , Arras Memorial

Bays 8 and 9 of the memorial contain the panels which bear the names of
missing members of The Gordon Highlanders

 

Pte John Stewart, Arras Memorial

The section bearing the names of soldiers of The Gordon Highlanders.

Among them John's neighbours Alexander Pirie, Braefolds and
Robert Anderson, Mains of Craighall

Pte John Stewart, Arras Memorial

Pte John Stewart, 7th Btn, Gordon Highlanders

 

The name of Pte John Stewart, Arras Memorial

The name of Pte John Stewart ( 11401 )

Men with the same initials are identified by their service numbers

View memorial plan

Arras Memorial Photographed August 2001

 

The 7th Gordon Highlanders Memorial, Banchory

 

7 Batt GH Memorial

7th Batt Gordon Highlanders
Memorial at Banchory

The Battalion's
Battle Honours are carved into
the surrounding stonework

Festubert - Somme - Beaumont Hamel - Arras - Ypres - Cambrai - St Quentin - Vimy Ridge - Roeux - Chemical Works - Bapaume - Lawe River - Marne - Scarpe




The inscription reads

BYDAND

To the honour of
the V11 Battalion
Gordon Highlanders
&
in proud rememberance
of the
seven hundred and eight
officers,
non commissioned officers
and men
who gave their lives
in the service of
their King and Country
in the Great War

1914-1919

 

 

 

7 Batt GH Memorial at Banchory

Photographed 2000