The Arras Memorial to the Missing


Arras Memorial to the Missing

The name of Alexander Pirie is recorded on the tablets of The Arras Memorial to the Missing. It is located
within the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras and bears the names of over 35,000 men who
fell in the battlefields surrounding Arras between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918 with the
exception of The Battle of Cambrai in 1917 and who have no known grave.

 

The Arras Memorial, Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery

The entrance to the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras


The Arras Memorial, France

The inscription at the entrance to the Arras Memorial.
It reads

1914-1918
HERE ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF 35942 OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE FORCES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO FELL IN THE
BATTLES OF ARRAS OR IN AIR OPERATIONS ABOVE THE
WESTERN FRONT AND WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE

 

Gordon Highlanders names, Arras Memorial

Bays 8 and 9 of the memorial contain the panels which bear the names of
missing members of The Gordon Highlanders

Pte Alexander Pirie Arras Memorial

The section bearing the names of soldiers of The Gordon Highlanders.

Among them Alexander's neighbours John Stewart, Haremyre
and Robert Anderson, Mains of Craighall

The name of Alexander Pirie

The name of Pte Alexander Pirie ( 265534 )

Men with the same initials are identified by their service numbers

View memorial plan

Arras Memorial Photographed August 2001
His neice, Charlotte Clark of Aberdeen, visited Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery in June 2004
and became the first famly member to make the journey there.


View  6GH memorial

6th Batt Gordon Highlanders Memorial