War Graves
Glasgow Necropolis holds graves of 18 Commonwealth service personnel, 13 from World War I and 5 from World War II, that are registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The first, and highest ranking, of those buried here is Lieutenant-General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson, who died in August 1914 in France and whose body was repatriated. His grave is in section Primus 38.
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