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1st KOSB CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS

Galashiels, Scottish Borders, Scotland

GALASHIELS (EASTLANDS) CEMETERY

1st KOSB in Normandy site logo

Awaiting photo

Eastlands Cemetery is on Eastlands Road in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders, and is maintained by Scottish Borders Council. Surviving burial records show it in use from at least the 1880s. The cemetery contains the graves of 53 identified Commonwealth service personnel from the First and Second World Wars, and these are commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

LOCATION

Galashiels, Scottish Borders, Scotland

DIRECTIONS

Coordinates: 55.61009, -2.79364

Description courtesy of CWGC

AT REST HERE

1 man of the 1st Battalion rests here

Grave Marker
RANK
First Name
Surname
AGE
Date of Death
Photographs
Grave Marker
RANK
First Name
Surname
AGE
Date of Death
Photo
Captain
STEPHEN
LYON
58
Friday, October 19, 1945

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

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