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Pennyfuir Cemetery

Coordinates: 56°25′43″N 5°27′42″W / 56.4287°N 5.4616°W / 56.4287; -5.4616
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Pennyfuir Cemetery
The cemetery in 2006, looking north to Lochan Dubh
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Established19th century
CountryScotland
Coordinates56°25′43″N 5°27′42″W / 56.4287°N 5.4616°W / 56.4287; -5.4616
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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Pennyfuir CemeteryOrdnance 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