Cromarty Cemetery
- Country United Kingdom
- Total identified casualties 72 Find these casualties
- Region Ross and Cromarty
- Identified casualties from First & Second World War
- GPS Coordinates Latitude: 57.67851, Longitude: -4.03356
Location information
The cemetery lies on the outskirts of the village of Cromarty on the Black Isle. Cromarty is a small village at the end of the peninsula. The cemetery entrance is in The Paye, a narrow lane just off the A832 as you approach Cromarty. Parking is possible in a gravel layby on the A832 just before the entrance to The Paye.
Visiting information
Please note visitors should be careful visiting the Cross of Sacrifice as it is built on top of the surrounding wall of the cemetery, which is unfenced.
History information
The cemetery, on the hill behind the town, comprises the Parish Churchyard (or "Gaelic Chapel Burial Ground"), with its Easter, Middle and Wester Sections; the Easter Extension; and the Wester Extension. (The Churchyard is vested in the Town Council, and the Extensions in the County and Town Councils.) It contains 74 scattered Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war (including those of 7 unidentified seamen of the Royal Navy), and 4 of the 1939-45 war. A War Cross is erected in the Wester (or new) Extension. Cromarty was a net-base; and the Cromarty Military Hospital contained 226 beds. In the Channel between Cromarty and Invergordon H.M.S. "Natal" was wrecked and overturned by an internal explosion on the 30th December 1915; the hull, marked by two beacons, stood out for some years above the water.
There are an additional 5 non world war burials here.