Remembering Stoker 1st Class W Young

HMS Natal was a pre-WWI era armoured cruiser which exploded and sank on 30th December 1915 at her achorage at Invergordon with the loss of up to 421 lives. Most of the bodies recovered after this tragedy were buried in Invergordon but a few were buried across the Cromarty Firth in the Gaelic Chapel graveyard above Cromarty.

This is the grave of Stoker 1st Class W Young, who was one of those buried there. It is a beautiful and peaceful place with a number of graves of sailors who died on active service before the Great War as well as those from HMS Natal and others killed during that conflict.