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East King Street, HELENSBURGH, G84 7BS

The cemetery, which is Category B listed https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB34824 contains 41 Commonwealth War Graves and many other notable memorials.

T/104573 DRIVER A. K. MC CONNELL ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS 2ND AUGUST 1941 AGE 23 HAPPY, SMILING ALWAYS CONTENT LOVED AND RESPECTED WHEREVER HE WENT

LIEUTENANT J. E. POLMONT. RNVR. H.M.S. “SPARTIATE” 3RD OCTOBER 1942 AGE 34 AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM HMS Spartiate appears to have been a shore-based establishment, responsible for security and safety on the River Clyde. While the headquarters was based in Glasgow, the patrols were based along the river, and this may account for reports which place HMS Spartiate at locations other than Glasgow, including Helensburgh https://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/HMSSpartiate.

S/24040 PRIVATE J. SPEIRS CAMERON HIGHLANDERS 11TH MARCH 1920 AGE 40 R.I.P.

4356 SERJEANT M. MAC DONALD ROYAL SCOTS 9TH FEBRUARY 1916 AGE 54 UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS & THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY Serjeant MacDonald completed 25 years service. He served in the Egyptian Campaign (1884) and South African War with the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards and 3rd Battalion Royal Scots.

One of the 41 Commonwealth War Graves within the cemetery. 1678 PRIVATE D. DRUMMOND ARG. & SUTH’D HIGHRS. 18TH JANUARY 1915 AGE 19 NOT ONCE OR TWICE IN OUR FAIR ISLAND’S STORY THE PATH OF DUTY IS THE WAY TO GLORY

This is a general view of the cemetery. The picture was taken from near the eastern boundary wall. Click on the end-note title for other views, including a selection of memorials that caught my attention (these include the five that are singled out for description in the listed building report, to which a link is given in the end-note).

An early-September view, taken from the train on the West Highland Line.

The inscription on the near side commemorates "John Ure, LL.D., born at Glasgow, 19th July 1824, died at Helensburgh, 1st August 1901", and his wife Isabella Gibb (b. at Glasgow, 10th May 1828; d. at Helensburgh 15th Feb 1915). As noted on the base of the monument, the stone is "the property of John Ure, Cairndhu House and his family". Image was designed by the architect William Leiper, and was built for the John Ure who is named here; he was the Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1880 to 1883. The far side of the memorial commemorates his son, "the Right Honourable Alexander Ure, P.C., G.B.E., LL.D., Baron Strathclyde of Sandyford, Solicitor General 1905-1909, Lord Advocate 1909-1913, Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session 1913-1920" (b. 24th Feb 1853, d. 2nd Oct 1928), and Alexander's wife Margaret McDowall Steven (b. 20th Nov 1855, d. 25th June 1940). Other members of the family are named in inscriptions on the remaining sides.

"Erected by William Scoular, feuar in Helensburgh, in memory of his children: Mary Ann, Jeanie, William, & Jessie, who all died young; Elizabeth Hartley, his second wife, died 4th Dec 1876, aged 76 years, also the above William Scoular who died 29th March, 1877, aged 70 years." For a closer look, see Image The memorial is the work of the sculptor William Robin; he was based in Paisley, and he is buried in that town's Woodside Cemetery: see Image See http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/8438 for views of the cemetery itself, where there is also a memorial, carved by him, for those executed after the Radical War of 1820: Image