Memorial

Wren G Canning

Memorial to Wren Gertrude Canning, Inveraray

Source: Copyright Martin Briscoe

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Current Location

Follow track past golf club to right hand bend towards water treatment works. Take left turn there and memorial is near that junction. Check map on Canmore., Near Inveraray Golf Club., Forest track running past Inveraray Golf Club, Inveraray, Argyll And Bute, Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute, PA32 8XT, Scotland

OS Grid Reference

NN 08323 07582

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 79615
Description: Wren Canning worked at Admiralty House, Inveraray during WW2. Her body was found near this location, she had been shot but the killer was never found. Plaque fixed to a boulder near where her body was found. Also an inscription on a loose rough flat rock against the boulder.
Inscription: Main plaque: Women's Royal Naval Service and The Royal british Legion Scotland badges at top of plaque IN MEMORY OF / WREN GERTRUDE CANNING / 1922 - 1942 / "WRNS N/WRNS/33824" / HMS QUEBEC, INVERARAY, SCOTLAND / KILLED NEAR THIS PLACE / 30TH JUNE 1942 / "Forever In Our thoughts" Inscribed stone: Our family chain / is broken / and nothing / seems the same / but as God calls us / one by one / the Chain will link again. (A broken chain at the bottom below the inscription)

Commemoration

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: rank. forename, surname, year of birth, service number, base, date of death, manner of death, place of death

Conservation

Components

Plaque

Made from: Unknown

Condition: Good