The Battle of Cambrai resulted in the death of around 9,000 Germans soldiers and more than 10,000 British ones, including Private E.G Rowan. A member of the Gordon Highlanders, as far as I can work out, he's buried in Louverval in northern France.
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One of a series of World War I memorials carved into the red sandstone rocks on the banks of the River Ayr below the Ballochmyle Viaduct in Ayrshire. The Battle of Cambrai took place in northern France near the Belgium border between the 20th of November and the 7th of December 1917 and was the first to involve the large scale use of tanks.
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The Ballochmyle Petroglyphs. Known as cup-and-ring marks, these were most likely carved in the neolithic period some four to six thousand years ago. Discovered in 1986 on a rock wall near the Ballochmyle Viaduct in Ayrshire, they're the most extensive area of such carvings so far uncovered in Britain. To give you an idea of the scale, the largest of the ring marks are around 50cm across.
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The 55.2 metre wide and 53.3 metre high central arch of the Ballochmyle Viaduct in Ayrshire. Designed by John Miller in the 1840s, it's not only the highest railway bridge in Britain, at the time it was built, it also has the largest masonry span in the world. It was constructed as part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway connecting Glasgow, Stranraer and Carlisle, and still carries passenger and freight trains to this day.
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