The following excerpt is from an article posted at the May 7, 2014 BBC website.
To mark the 69th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day BBC Scotland has created an ONLINE DATABASE of 21,740 of the 57,000 Scots who died during World War Two.
Etched into sun-seared stone, the names of hundreds of Scots can be read on the seemingly endless rows of headstones criss-crossing the small cemetery in northern Egypt.
Names like Bruce, Cameron, McCallum, and Stewart appear alien in a landscape so different to that of their homeland.
El Alamein is now the final resting place for 7,240 soldiers – approximately 498 of them Scottish – who lost their lives fighting the Axis forces in North Africa during World War Two.
Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.
