Dunoon Cemetery

Dunoon Cemetery is a cemetery in Dunoon, Scotland.

[1][2] The original section of the cemetery is 1.78 acres (0.72 ha), while its extension is 1.57 acres (0.64 ha).

[1] As of 2003[update], the cemetery, which is owned by Argyll and Bute Council, contained 3,546 gravestones, with the earliest dating to 1857.

[1] On 30 May 1943, HMS Untamed sank during a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of all 35 of her crew.

[3][4] All of the dead, including 23-year-old lieutenant John Priestly Duncan,[5] were buried in Dunoon Cemetery, while the war memorial in nearby Sandbank is partly dedicated to them.