Memorial at Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth commemorating William Johnson d. 1897
Location
Highland Road cemetery, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'Beneath this stone / LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF/WILLIAM JOHNSON / WHO AS A POWDER MONKEY / FOUGHT AT NAVARINO OCTOBER 20TH 1827 / ON BOARD H.M.S. GENOA / HE AFTERWARDS SERVED ON THE COAST OF SYRIA / AT ST JEAN D'ACRE AND IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD / BEING CAST ASHORE WHEN IN HMS WOLVERINE / HE DIED AT THE PORTSMOUTH WORKHOUSE / JULY 12TH 1897 AGED 86 YEARS / HE WAS DRAWN TO HIS GRAVE BY BRITISH SAILORS / ON A GUN CARRIAGE COVERED WITH THE UNION JACK / THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY / PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO HONOUR ONE WHO IF IN A / HUMBLE CAPACITY HELPED TO BUILD UP OUR GREAT EMPIRE'
Details
Description: Foul anchor and rock. Type: Gravestone
Event
St Jean D'Acre
Event Date
1840
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Johnson, William Age: 86 Date of Death: 12/7/1897 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at the Parish Church, Willisden, London commemorating Captain Arthur Brooke, RN d. 1893
Location
Parish Church, Willisden, London, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of my husband, Captain Arthur T Brooke RN Born at Colebrooke Co Fermannah, Ireland 6th June 1838. Died at Devonport 5 April 1893 while in command of the Royal Naval Barracks and as flag captain to HRH the commander in Chief. He shall call upon me and I will hear him yea I am with him in trouble deliver him and bring him to honour Psalm XCI 15V'
Details
Description: In the form of a ship's mast with rope coiled round the base and an anchor (broken). Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Marble
People
Brooke, Arthur T. Age: 55 Date of Death: 5/4/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Monuments at St Nicholas’s Parish Church, Newport, Shropshire commemorating Commander Walter Henry Leeke RN d. 1924
Location
St Nicholas's Parish Church, Newport, Shropshire, England
Transcript
'Walter Henry Leeke Commander Royal Navy son of Thomas Newton and Annabella Mary Leeke. Served in H.M.S. Warspite in the battle of Jutland. Died at Kampala Uganda, February 8th 1924 aged 38'
Details
Type: Wall monument. Position: West wall of nave. Vessel: HMS Warspite
Event
Battle of Jutland
Event Date
1916
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Leeke, Walter Henry Age: 38 Date of Death: 8/2/1924 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet at Bristol Cathedral dedicated to Joseph Parker d. 1844
Location
Cathedral, Bristol, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / ELIZABETH PARKER, / THE WIFE OF JOSEPH PARKER, / SURGEON IN THE ROYAL NAVY / AND ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE LUDOVICK GRANT ESQ OF KNOCKANDO IN MURRAYSHIRE / SHE BORE A LONG AND PAINFUL ILLNESS / WITH EXEMPLARY PATIENCE / AND YIELDED UP HER SPIRIT / INTO THE HANDS OF ITS MAKER / WITH PIOUS RESIGNATION / ON THE 29TH JUNE 1826 / ON THE 54TH YEAR OF HER AGE / ALSO OF / JOSEPH PARKER ESQR. / HER HUSBAND / WHO DIED IN BATH / 4TH JULY 1844 AGED 84 YEARS / THEIR REMAINS ARE BURIED / IN A GRAVE NEAR THIS MONUMENT'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: South transept Materials: Marble
People
Parker, Joseph Age: 84 Date of Death: 4/7/1844 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: With associated ledger in North Aisle. Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969 Photographer: B. Tomlinson 1996
Gravestone in Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, commemorating Lieutenant Walter Vivian Butler RN d. 1900
Location
Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, England
Transcript
'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / WALTER VIVIAN BUTLER. R.N. / GUNNERY LIEUTENANT H.M.S. SEVERN / SON OF SPENCER PERCIVAL AND MARY BUTLER / DIED 12TH NOVEMBER 1900 / AGED 25 YEARS'
Details
Description: Three tier base, originally with a cross now missing. Type: Gravestone Position: see plan Vessel: HMS Severn
People
Butler, Walter Vivian Age: 25 Date of Death: 12/11/1900 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Gunnery Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at St Paul’s Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada commemorating John Samwell, RN and William Stevens, RN, d. 1815
Location
St Paul's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Mr. John Samwell Midshipman of HMS Shannon who died at the Naval Hospital on the 13th June 1815 aged 18 years. Also Mr William Stevens boatswain of the same ship who died there on the 19th June 1815 aged 36 years. Those brave officers clos'd their career in consequence of desperate wounds received in the gallant action between their own ship and the American frigate Chesepak [sic] on the 1 of June 1815 which ended in the capture of the enemy ship in 14 minutes'
Details
Type: Gravestone Vessel: HMS Shannon
Event
War of 1812
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Samwell, John Age: 18 Date of Death: 13/6/1815 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Stevens, William Age: 36 Date of Death: 19/6/1815 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Boatswain Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Also memorial at the Royal Navy Burying Ground, Halifax commemorating five seamen of HMS 'Shannon' who died of their wounds in 1815.
Bibliography: H.F. Pullen 'Shannon and the Chesapeake' (Toronto, 1970).
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters