Highland war memorial to be updated

A WAR memorial in the Highlands is to be updated with the names of military personnel killed in conflicts since the end of the Second World War.

Royal British Legion Scotland’s Inverness branch and Highland Council have asked families in the city and surrounding area to provide details.

The names will be added to the Cavell Gardens War Memorial.

Conflicts since 1945 include the Korean and Falkland wars and operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Names will include those killed or who died later as a result of injuries sustained in a conflict.

Highland Council said: “To enable the authorities to verify the details for the entry on the war memorial, they require as much information about the deceased as possible, such as the number, rank and full name of the deceased, ship, unit, regiment, squadron or base, conflict in which the incident occurred.”

The memorial on a bank of the River Ness, which dates from 1922, recalls those killed in the two world wars.

According to Gaelic heritage website Am Baile, one in seven men in Inverness parish died while serving in the First World War.