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The teenagers are just a few years younger than the pilots, navigators, air gunners, and wireless operators whose names and ages are recorded on the headstones.

A fatal accident inquiry into his death heard that up to 900 headstones at Craigton were deemed unsafe in the days after the tragedy.

Over the next two years, Black and the council worked together to pinpoint where Logan was buried and agreed for a suitable headstone to be placed to commemorate him.

The inscription on her headstone had become so illegible that, prompted by a local campaign, masonry restorers were brought in to spruce it up.

“It’s not a number, not a headstone,” she told me.