Pennyfuir Cemetery

Cemetery in Oban, Scotland

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Pennyfuir Cemetery is a cemetery in Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It was established in the 19th century.[1]

The cemetery contains 23 graves from the First World War and 58 from the Second World War.[1][2] Four of the Second World War graves are of airmen who died in the Dunbeath air crash which killed Prince George, Duke of Kent, on 25 August 1942.[2] In the centre of the war cemetery stands the Cross of Sacrifice, constructed from white Portland stone.[2]

Notable burials

  • David Hutcheson (1799–1880), shipbuilder[1]
  • Peter Macnab (1812–1892), architect and joiner[3]
  • Frances Shand Kydd (1936–2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Pennyfuir Cemetery – Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland, Francis Hindes Groome (1901)
  2. ^ a b c Oban (Pennyfuir) Cemetery – Commonwealth War Graves
  3. ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 7 November 1893, p. 1166
  4. ^ "Earl Spencer denies family rift" – The Guardian, 10 June 2004