Hunter Monument - April 2022

In Dunfermline Cemetery there is a monument to a local lad, William Hunter (17), who died while attempting to rescue a young boy who was drowning in Townhill Loch in July 1886. Such was the response to Hunter’s heroic actions at the time that a fund was launched to erect a monument in his honour. One of the subscribers was Andrew Carnegie. It was this incident which led to the establishment of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust UK in 1908.

The monument has stood proudly in the cemetery ever since but had begun to show signs of age through weathering. In early 2022 work was carried out to bring the monument back to its former glory.