Memorial in St Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft, Suffolk commemorating William Henry Brame d. 1823
Location
St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the Memory of / WILLIAM HENRY BRAME / the youngest son of / JAMES and ANN BRAME / who died on the 20th day of April 1823 / on board His Majesty's packet Manchester / on his passage from Malta to England / in the 23rd year of his age'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Materials: Marble Vessel: Manchester
People
Brame, William Henry Age: 22 Date of Death: 20/4/1823 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Unknown
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Bibliography: Hugh D.W. Lees 'Chronicles of a Suffolk Parish Church: Lowestoft St Margaret' (Lowestoft, 1949). Recorder: B B T, 3/7/81
Memorial in Upper Park Street Burial ground, Pembroke Dock commemorating William Harris
Location
Upper Park Street Burial ground, Pembroke Dock, Wales
Transcript
'...late Private in the Plymouth Division
Details
Type: Gravestone
People
Harris, William Age: 26 Date of Death: 14/5/1836 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines
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Notes: Date may be 1856. Bibliography: Lawrence Phillips 'Royal Marines Graves at Pembroke Dock', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 68, p. 438 (Greenwich, 1982).
Wall tablet in Portsmouth Cathedral commemorating Captain William Fielding RM d. 1789
Location
Cathedral of Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'Near this Place / lies interr'd the Body of / WILLIAM FEILDING Esqr / Captain of Marines. Son of the late / Admiral FEILDING / who died the 11th of January 1789. / Aged 43 Years. / Also/ ELIZABETH FEILDING / Relict of the above / Capt WILLM FEILDING / & Daughter of / JOHN GREENWAY Esqr / who died Augst 19th 1796. / Aged 48 Years.'
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Description: Urn with a drape surmounting an oval plaque bearing the inscription. Beneath the inscription is the face of a cherub backed by a cannon, hatchet, yardarm with sail, spear, a sponge on a stave (used during firing of a cannon), and another item which may be the muzzle of a swivel gun.
Type: Wall tablet Position: North side of nave Materials: Marble
People
Feilding, William Age: 43 Date of Death: 11/12/1789 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RM Organisation: Royal Marines
Memorial in St Keverne, Cornwall commemorating officers and men who died in the loss of the transport ‘Despatch’ in 1809
Location
St Akeveranus's Church, St Keverne, Cornwall, England
Transcript
‘The Officers, Non Commissioned officers and Privates / of His Majesty’s seventh (or Queen’s own) Regisment of Hussars / To the Memory of / Major GEO. Hy. C. CAVENDISH, Captn. S.G. DUKENFIELD / Lieut. The Honble EDWARD WALDEGRAVE / And sixty-one Non commissioned Officers and Privates of the Regiment / Who on returning from SPAIN in the Dispatch Transport / Unhappily perished in COVERACK COVE the 22nd of January 1809/ ‘When Britain sends at liberty’s command / Her ready youth to free a stranger land / She bears her slain in triumph to the shore, / And the proud parent shows the wounds before, / But when her sons, each form of danger past, Strain their glad eyes to view her hills at last // If then the tempest rolls the foaming flood, /And her own ocean ‘whelms her bravest blood, / When there a Duckenfield, a Cavendish here, / A youthful Waldegrave press a wat’ry bier // Their mourning comrades feel a moistened cheek / And bid the marble their dumb sorrow speak/ Tyrant, the barrier of thy rage, the deep / Aids thy fierce boast, and English mothers weep...’
Details
Description: Wall tablet. The wreck shown in relief above the inscription panel, military trophies below. The whole on brackets carved with acanthus leaves. Type: Wall tablet Materials: Marble Vessel: Dispatch
People
Waldegrave, Edward Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1809 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Organisation: 7th Regiment of Huzzars Cavendish, George Henry Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1809 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Major Organisation: 7th Regiment of Huzzars Duckenfield, S.G. Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1809 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Captain Organisation: 7th Regiment of Huzzars
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Notes: A granite cross marks the site of the mass grave. English Heritage photograph BB98-01791(1) Recorder: Mary Waldegrave
Plaque in St Mary’s Church, Wolborough, Devon dedicated to Lieutenant-Commander Edward Ambrose Norman Gardiner d. 1942 and other members of his family
Location
St Mary's Church, Wolborough, Devon, England
Transcript
'Also in proud memory of / His grandson's [sic] William Norman Gardiner Lieut. R.N. / H.M.S. Defence 31 May 1916 aged 23 / Edward Ambrose Norman Gardiner / Lt. Com. R.N.: H.M.S. Hermes 9 April 1942 aged 38 / Edward John Cornish-Bowden: Lieut. R.N. / H.M.S. Tetrarch November 1941 aged 23 / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY'
Details
Description: Rope borders with anchors in the top corners. Type: Plaque Position: North wall Materials: Brass and slate Vessel: HMS Defence, HMS Hermes, HMS Tetrarch
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Cornish-Bowden, Edward John Age: 23 Date of Death: 11/1941 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Gardiner, William Norman Age: 31/5/1916 Date of Death: 23 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Liuetenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Gardiner, Edward Ambrose Norman Age: 38 Date of Death: 9/4/1942 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Commander Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial tile in All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, commemorating Robert B Rowe d. 1873
Location
All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England
Transcript
'ROBERT B ROWE / aged 23 / washed overboard from the / Ship 'Maitland’ / off Start Point / Jan, 9. 1873.'
Details
Type: Memorial tile Vessel: Maitland
People
Rowe, Robert B. Age: 23 Date of Death: 9/1/1873 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Bibliography: Elspeth McAdam 'Peril on the Sea', 'Family Tree' vol. 5, p. 30 ( Jan 1989). Alfred L. Wakeling and Peter Moon 'Tiles of Tragedy' (Brightlingsea, 2001)
Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969 Photographer: P Lacey
Memorial at Camberwell, London commemorating Robert Waith, Paymaster to the Navy d. 1685
Location
Camberwell, London, England
Transcript
'Here lye the Bodys of ROBERT WAITH Gent Paymaster of the Navy to King CHARLES the Second who dyed on the 28th day of Oct, 1685 & of ELIZABETH his WIFE who dyed on the 13th day of Aprill 1667 & of ROBT. WAITH Gent, their eldest Son and Heir who dyed on the 16th Dec. 1686 in the 25th yeare of his Age. And of ROBT WAITH Gent, his Son who dyed on the 5th day of Oct. 1686 Resurgimus'
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People
Waith, Robert Age: Date of Death: 28/10/1685 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Paymaster of the Navy Organisation:
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Bibliography: John Le Neve 'Monumenta Anglicana', vol.iii, p.71, (London, 1718).
Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis, commemorating Captain Francis Stewart d. 1850
Location
Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Captain Francis Steward died 6 December 1850 age 55'
Details
People
Steward, Francis Age: 55 Date of Death: 6/12/1850 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation:
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Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 8, p. 499. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site.
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters