The list is long. So many have died in this area. They perished hiking, driving, training. They died on Ben Nevis, in Glen Nevis and in the surrounding area.
a large number of accidents
They died rock climbing, in avalanches, falling from ridges, crashing into mountains with planes, they were struck by lightning, they drowned, they were killed by explosions.
Some of those are buried in Glen Nevis cemetery opposite the Glen Nevis Visitors Center, where helicopters and mountain range rescue teams are operating all year round.
a peaceful part of Glen Nevis
Glen Nevis cemetery, a peaceful and quiet place in this busy area of the Highlands, Fort William is just round the corner. A vast camp site caters for the needs of many visitors. Scotland’s largest mountain is a center of attraction.
There is a considerable number of war graves in this cemetery. No headstone for flying officer John Donald McDonnell though. He crashed his plane into the hillside on May 16th, 1943. Visibility was poor and the pilot had engine problems. He was 21 years old when he died.
World War II
Sergeant Arthur George Gomm was 25 when a premature explosion took his life in November 1944. The tragic accident happened at the Commando Basic Training center in Achnacarry, just a few miles west of Glen Nevis. He was not the only soldier in training on and around the Commando Dark Mile. He was noct the only one who lost his life.
Quite a few deaths were caused by drowning
There was Alan Haydon, an English Gunner, died by accidental drowning November 28, 1941. He was not the only one who drowned that day. With him died Private Patrick McCarthy, Fusilier James Scullion, and Corporal Frederick Turne. All four lost their life in Loch Linne. What happened? Their story was never told.
Lieutenant George Arthur Woolam, died in June 1945, three months before the end of World War II. His cause of death was also an accident while serving at the Commando Basic Training Center. The records state he fractured his skull at the North British Aluminium Company’s Works in Kinlochleven, south of Glen Nevis.
Walking among the graves of Glen Nevis cemetery is like walking through the history of this area. These stones tell many tales, most of them sad, some even tragic. They keep the memory alive.
more information on http://www.commandoveterans.org/FortWilliam-GlenNevis
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Scotland is a country full of history, stories and secrets. Often, the three cannot be separated. That is what makes this country so wonderful and unique. The stories of this book have been discovered and gathered for Erkenbach’s blog, Graveyards of Scotland, over many years.
Her main sources were historical travel guides from the 18th and 19th centuries, where the finds were scary, beautiful, funny, and sometimes, cruel.This unusual approach to a country’s history has produced amazing results. You don’t have to share the author’s passion for cemeteries to enjoy this book; only a small number of the stories in this collection take place in graveyards, though they do all end in them, so perhaps it helps.
The fairy hill in Inverness, a nitrate murder on Shetland, a family of left-handers, wolves, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace shown in a new light, the secret bay of the writer Gavin Maxwell, a murdering poet and so many things you didn’t know about Scotland, its clans and its history.
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The amount of times I’ve been up to Glen/Ben Nevis and I’ve never been here. Looks fascinating, and so well described as always.
Thank you Matthew. Really? You‘ve been up many times? I never fancied facing the crowds during summer.