Commando Memorial
The Commando Memorial is a Category A listed monument in Lochaber, Scotland, dedicated to the men of the original British Commando Forces raised during World War II.Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: monument in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Spean Bridge railway station and Gairlochy Lighthouse.
Spean Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Spean Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Spean Bridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Roy Bridge and Fort William, sited 90 miles 56 chains from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh. Spean Bridge railway station is situated 1 mile southeast of Commando Memorial.
Gairlochy Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gairlochy Lighthouse is situated 2 miles northwest of Commando Memorial.
Mucomir power station
Power station
Photo: Jennifer Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mucomir power station is situated 2 miles northwest of Commando Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spean Bridge and Gairlochy.
Spean Bridge
Village
Photo: peter henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spean Bridge is a village in the parish of Kilmonivaig, in Lochaber in the Highland region of Scotland. The village takes its name from the Highbridge over the River Spean on General Wade's military road between Fort William and Fort Augustus, and not from Thomas Telford's bridge of 1819 which carries the A82 over the river at the heart of the village.
Gairlochy
Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gairlochy is a clachan, or hamlet, of population approx. 100. It lies on the southern shores of Loch Lochy, a large freshwater loch in the district of Lochaber in the North West Highlands of Scotland. Gairlochy is situated 2 miles northwest of Commando Memorial.
Kilmonivaig
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilmonivaig is a small village, situated close to the southeast end of Loch Lochy in Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Fort William lies approximately 15 miles southwest of Kilmonivaig. Kilmonivaig is situated 2½ miles west of Commando Memorial.
Commando Memorial
- Categories: monument, sculpture, and historic site
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.89792° or 56° 53′ 53″ northLongitude
-4.94409° or 4° 56′ 39″ westInception
1952Open location code
9C8QV3X4+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 255077306OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q5152246
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In Other Languages
From German to Ukrainian—“Commando Memorial” goes by many names.
- German: “Commando Memorial”
- Hebrew: “אנדרטת הקומנדו”
- Japanese: “コマンド・メモリアル”
- Russian: “Памятник коммандос”
- Ukrainian: “Меморіал британським командос”
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