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==Other monuments of interest== [[File:Col. Robert A Smith Memorial, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.JPG|thumb|Colonel Smith's Monument]] * Monument to [[John George Bartholomew]], map-maker (buried in Portugal) on the north wall of the twentieth-century cemetery extension (sculpted by [[Pilkington Jackson]]) * Monument to [[Robert Dunsmure]] and his brothers, all of whom died abroad * Monument to Col [[Lauderdale Maule]] and the 79th [[Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders|Cameron Highlanders]] marking their role in the [[Crimean War]] at [[Alma River (Ukraine)|Alma]] and [[Sevastopol]]. The rear of the monument commemorates their part in the Indian Mutiny at [[Lucknow]] * Monument to the Edinburgh-born Confederate [[Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument|Colonel Robert A. Smith]] who died in 1862 at [[Munfordsville, Kentucky|Munfordsville]], Kentucky in the [[American Civil War]] * Monument to historian [[John Hill Burton]], who is buried at [[Dalmeny]]. Monument in Dean is by [[William Brodie (sculptor)|William Brodie]] * Monument to [[John Wilson (singer)|John Wilson]] (1800β1849), vocalist (buried in Quebec), also subject of a memorial at the foot of [[Calton Hill]] * The Cemetery contains the war graves of 39 Commonwealth service personnel, 29 from [[World War I]] and 10 from [[World War II]], registered and maintained by the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]].<ref name=cwgc1 /> The oldest soldier buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym KCB (1839β1919) aged 80 (this is a normal grave not a CWGC grave).<ref name=cwgc2>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/47106/EDINBURGH%20%28DEAN%20OR%20WESTERN%29%20CEMETERY |title=Cemetery Details |website=CWGC.org |access-date=2016-01-07}}</ref> Most of the war graves lie in the independently accessed twentieth-century section to the north of the main cemetery. * [[Robert Digby-Jones]] [[Victoria Cross|VC]] is memorialised on his parents' grave in the north extension. * Monument to the orphans dying at the immediately adjacent [[Dean Orphanage]]
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