John Sutherland kindly visited another five cemeteries in Flanders last weekend.  His photos of the graves of another eight Orcadian soldiers have now been added to the website Memorial section: RGA gunners James Leask of Sandwick, Ralph Louttit of Evie, David Gordon and Thomas Cutt of Kirkwall, Seaforth Highlanders William Stout of Walls, Kenneth Alexander of Holm (and Kirkwall), William Robertson of Kirkwall and RE Sapper Alex Sutherland of South Ronaldsay.  

Photos of the graves of Canadians James Groat from Westray and George Inkster from Rousay, also Scots Guardsman William Petrie from South Ronaldsay have been added to the appropriate pages of the website Memorials section.  These Orcadians are buried in Belgium, at repectively Lijssenthoek Cemetery near Poperinge and Railway Dugouts and Potijze Cemeteries in Ieper.  The photos were very kindly provided by John Sutherland: a Scotsman who spent most of his working life (after 10 years in the RAF) in Yorkshire, but he and wife Marianne have lived in Ieper (Ypres) since November 2008.  John, who was the UK co-ordinator for the new Scottish Memorial unveiled in Flanders in August 2007, researches war dead whose surname was Sutherland.