Memorial: M2040

Memorial at St Andrew’s Church, Donhead St Andrew commemorating Captain John Cooke RN d. 1805 in the Battle of Trafalgar

Location

St Andrew's Church, Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, England

Transcript

'SACRED to the Memory of / JOHN COOKE, Esqr late Captain of / His Majesty's ship BELLEROPHON, / Who in the Battle / OF TRAFALGAR / on the 21st of Oct'r 1805 / Having evinced the most consummate skill, / And Bravery, / In the conflict of that eventful day, / Fell / In a moment, glorious indeed to his COUNTRY, / But marked by individual tears / of all who knew him. / His inconsolable widow, / Places this tablet to record / His virtues and His Fate, / Near the spot which he had chosen / as his favourite retirement / And to which, / Having left it at the call of his Country, / He returned no more. / Peruit Anno Aetatis 43 / Be merciful to her O God who bends, / And mourns the best of Husbands, Fathers, Friends, / Oh "When she wakes at midnight" but to shed / Fresh tears of anguish on her lonely bed, / "Thinking on Him who IS NOT," -then restrain / Her bitter thoughts and her sad heart sustain. / FATHER of MERCIES she remembers still / Thy chast'ning hand, and to thy Sov'reign will / Bows silent, but not HOPELESS whilst her eye, / she raises to a bright FUTURITY, / And Trusts in better worlds thou will restore ,/ The Happiness she here can meet no more / Louisa, Relict of the above / Departed this life at Cheltenham Feby 5th, 1853 / Aged 96 Years'

Details

Vessel: HMS Bellerophon

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Cooke, John
Age: 43
Date of Death: 21/10/1805
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: N.M. Assheton 1984

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters