Memorial: M2386

Gravestone in the Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground, Greenwich commemorating Thomas Allen d. 1838, Nelson’s servant

Location

Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'To the memory / of / Thomas Allen / the faithful servant / of / Admiral Lord Nelson / born at / Burnham Thorpe / in the / county of Norfolk / 1764 / and died at / the Royal Hospital / Greenwich / on the 23rd November / 1838'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Materials: Portland stone

People

Allen, Thomas
Age: c. 74
Date of Death: 23/11/1838
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Servant. Greenwich pensioner
Organisation: Royal Hospital, Greenwich

Extra

Notes: Servant of Lord Nelson

Bibliography: Graham Dean and Keith Evans 'Nelson's Heroes' (Norwich, 1994) p. 13

Recorder: B. Tomlinson. 1981

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