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South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, India commemorating Joseph Weldon, HEIC, d. 1815

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South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of Mr Joseph Weldon / late Branch Pilot in the Honble Company's / Marine who departed this life the 25th January / 1815, aged 50 years. / Living beloved, in all relations true / Exposed to follies, but inclined to few; / Reader - reflect and copy if you can, / the social virtues of this worthy man.'

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People

Weldon, Joseph
Age: 50
Date of Death: 25/1/1815
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Branch Pilot
Organisation: Bengal Pilot Service

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Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.158.
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St Peter's Church, Oundle, Northamptonshire, England

Memorial at St Peter’s Church, Oundle commemorating Lieutenant Arthur Erskine Gurney Coombs RN d. 1914 in the loss of HMS ‘Hawke’

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St Peter's Church, Oundle, Northamptonshire, England

Transcript

'Arthur Erskine Gurney Coombs, Lieutenant R.N. who lost his life through the sinking of H.M.S. Hawke whilst on active service on 15th Oct 1914. He died for freedom and honour, He has no other grave than the sea'

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Vessel: HMS Hawke

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Coombs, Arthur Erskine Gurney
Age: 26
Date of Death: 15/10/1914
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Notes: Lieutenant Royal Navy in HMS 'Hawke', sunk by 'U9' in North Sea..
Recorder: Rev. William Henry Donnan 1973
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South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, India commemorating John Swift, d. 1791

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South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Mr. John Swift, Mariner, / departed this life 26th April 1791, Aet 70 years. / An old inhabitant of Calcutta and near / 50 years a resident in India. / Happy is he, the only happy man / Who out of choice does all the good he can; / who business loves, and others better makes, / By prudent industry, and care he takes, / God's blessing here he'll have, and man's esteem / And when he dies his works will follow him'

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Vessel: Rodney

People

Swift, John
Age: 70
Date of Death: 26/4/1791
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Mariner
Organisation: Unknown

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Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.77-8
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Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, Lincolnshire, England

Gravestone at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, Lincolnshire commemorating Captain Charles Leopold Cust RN d. 1931

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Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, Lincolnshire, England

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'IN MEMORY OF / CHARLES LEOPOLD CUST / FOR THIRTY NINE YEARS / THE DEVOTED SERVANT AND TRUSTED FRIEND / OF HIS SOVEREIGN / BORN FEBY 27 1864 DIED JANY 19 1931 / FEARLESS SIMPLE AND GENEROUS / HIS LOYALTY AND SINCERITY WERE / OF A QUALITY THAT IS GIVEN TO FEW / IN HS UNITY OF PURPOSE HE WAS / PERHAPS UNAWARE OF THE WIDE / AFFECTION WHICH HE INSPIRED / HE RESTS SECURE / IN THE KEEPING OF GOD'[other side] 'MDCCCLXIV MDCCCCXXXI' [motto] 'ESSE QUAM VIDERI', 'THIRD AND LAST BARON OF LEASOWE / IN THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL / VICTORIAN ORDER EQUERRY IN WAITING / TO HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FIFTH / A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY'

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Description: Inscribed on both sides and carved with a shield of arms and a crest.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Stone

People

Cust, Charles Leonard
Age:
Date of Death: 19/1/1931
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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All Saints Church, Botley, Hampshire, England

Gate at All Saints Church, Botley, Hampshire, commemorating HMS Amethyst

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All Saints Church, Botley, Hampshire, England

Details

Description: Gate made of a ship's wheel.
Type: Gate
Position: Churchyard
Vessel: HMS Amethyst

Event

Yangtze Incident

Event Date

1949

Extra

Notes: Memorial grove at the National Arboretum commemorating the 46 lives lost.
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Church, Boldixum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Rest of the World

Gravestone at Boldixum church,  Schleswig-Holstein commemorating Jens Namens d. 1815

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Church, Boldixum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Rest of the World

Details

Description: Carved with a whaling ship.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard

People

Namens, Jens
Age:
Date of Death: 10/10/1815
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

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Bibliography: T. Sheppard 'Old Dutch Whalers','Mariners Mirror' vol. 25, pp. 50-61, (Cambridge, 1939).
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Old Library, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Statue at the Old  Library, Lichfield of a  naval brigade rating from HMS ‘Powerful’

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Old Library, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

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Description: Sailor in field service order holding a Lee Enfield rifle Mark 1. 'HMS POWERFUL' on his cap ribbon.
Type: Statue
Position: South wall
Materials: Ketton stone
Date Erected: 1905
Artists: Robert Bridgeman & Sons, George Frederick Bodley
Vessel: HMS Powerful

Event

Boer Wars

Event Category

19th century conflicts in Africa

Extra

Notes: From a South African war memorial erected in Duncombe Place York. Replaced with an unarmed figure.
Bibliography: Public Monument and Sculpture Association, National Recording Project. Pieter van der Merwe 'Another Lichfield Sailor', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 95, No. 4. (November 2009) P. 483.
Recorder: Dr Pieter van der Merwe
Photographer: Dr Pieter van der Merwe
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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Thomas Dowling d. 1906

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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'Thomas Dowling / A.B. H.M.S. 'Illustrious' / died / 18th Octr 1906 Aged 20'

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Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (old) 374
Vessel: HMS Illustrious

People

Dowling, Thomas
Age: 20
Date of Death: 18/10/1906
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry, 1987
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Parish Church, St Michael Caerhays, Cornwall, England

Gravestone in St Michael Caerhays, Cornwall dedicated to Luke Brokenshaw d. 1840

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Parish Church, St Michael Caerhays, Cornwall, England

Transcript

'To The / Memory / of / Luke Brokenshaw / Master in the Royal Navy / Who died on the 3rd. of May / 1840 / Aged 60 years. / For a series of years he distinguished / himself in the service of his country, / and participated in the honors / of a perishable fame. / In the retirement of private life, the milder / virtues were equally conspicuous: / the love of kindred, and that / more extended benevolence / which embraces entire / mankind were his. / He taught both by precept and example, the / obligations of christian duty; and / in the hearts of a long race of / friends and dependants, / his name and memory / are embalmed. / To an open profession of religion, he added / the substantial evidences of a renewed / heart; and at the close of a life of / more than ordinary usefulness, / he esteemed it his greatest / happiness to know he was / A sinner saved by Grace'

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Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Vessel: HMS Revenge

Event

Battle of Trafalgar 1805

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1793-1802 French Revolutionary War

People

Brokenshaw, Luke
Age:
Date of Death: 3/5/1840
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Notes: Master of HMS 'Revenge' at Trafalgar. Inscription recorded in Cornwall Record Office AD.676/5. Born 1779. Original gravestone badly damaged. A wooden memorial was present in St Peter's churchyard, Mevagissy, Cornwall in 1967 but is no longer there.
Bibliography: Joseph Polsue 'Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall' vol.3 (1870)
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North Font Cemetery, Gibraltar, Rest of the World

Memorial in North Font Cemetery, Gibraltar commemorating George Ewbank d. 1852

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North Font Cemetery, Gibraltar, Rest of the World

Transcript

'..of Barnard Castle, Durham. Ship chandler in this city for upwards of 20 years. Died 11.3.1852 aged 53 years'

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People

Ewbank, George
Age: 53
Date of Death: 11/3/1852
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

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Recorder: B.D. & G.L. Metherell 1985
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