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St Andrew's Church, Kenn, Devon, England

Memorial in St Andrew’s Church, Kenn, Devon commemorating John How d. 1688

Location

St Andrew's Church, Kenn, Devon, England

Transcript

'HEARE LYETH THE BODY OF JOHN HOW OF THIS PARISH FORMELY A MARENER WHO DAYED A HVSBAND MAN THE 25TH DAY OF JANVARY 1688/9'

Details

Description: Skull and cross bones under inscription
Type: Wall plaque
Position: South aisle
Materials: Slate

People

How, John
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 25/1/1688
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Mariner
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: Noted as being in this position by the Rev. Porter in 1862. Burial not in register, churchwarden 1678.

Recorder: F.M.M. Lewes 1994
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Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England

Gothic tomb at Kensal Green Cemetery commemorating Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts RN d. 1867

Location

Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORIAM / CHARLES / SPEN / CER / RICKETTS / COMMANDER / ROYAL NAVY / OBIT FEBRUARY XVII: MDCCCLXVII / AGED LXX1X YEARS'

Details

Description: Three corner gargoyles missing. Elaborate and fanciful Portland Stone canopied tomb with sarcophagus decorated with naval icons as inlay in artificial stone. The sarcophagus is supported by green Cornish Serpentine colonettes with the canopy supported by polished pink Peterhead Granite columns. The monument was designed by William Burges (1827-1881) and is Grade II listed. It is located on the South side of South Branch Avenue.
Type: Tomb
Position: 20242/47/RS
Materials: Portland Stone, Pink Peterhead Granite; Cornish serpentine.
Artists: William Burgess

People

Ricketts, Charles
Age: 79
Date of Death: 1867
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: 1788-1867. Joined Navy aged 7 and served under Nelson, married an heiress and retired aged 27.
Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 194.
Photographer: Lucy Saint, Eleanor Baugh ©RMG
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All Saints Church, Tudeley, Kent, England

Memorial window by Marc Chagall in All Saints Church, Tudeley, Kent commemorating Sarah Venetia d’Avigdor-Goldsmid, d. 1963

Location

All Saints Church, Tudeley, Kent, England

Details

Description: Crucifixion scene with angel. Below a rider on a red horse, symbolising happiness. The lower part of the window shows the drowned girl and her boat below the sea surrounded by grieving relatives and a figure of the virgin and child.
Type: Window
Position: East arch of south wall
Materials: Stained glass
Date Erected: November 1967
Artists: Marc Chagall

People

d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sarah Venetia
Age: 21
Date of Death: 19/9/1963
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER. Dedicated in November 1967 to commemorate the 21 year old daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Rosemary D'Avigdor-Goldsmid drowned in 1963 while sailing off Rye.

The Tudeley windows are inspired, said Chagall, by the words of Psalm 8, especially verses 4-8:
"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.”

Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan, 1972
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Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England

Gravestone at Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland commemorating Jack Crawford, the hero of Camperdown d. 1831

Location

Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England

Transcript

'THE / GRAVE / OF / JACK CRAWFORD / THE HERO OF / CAMPERDOWN' [base] 'THE SAILOR WHO HEROICALLY NAILED / ADMIRAL DUNCAN'S FLAG / TO THE MAIN-TOP-GALLANT MAST OF / HMS VENERABLE AFTER IT HAD BEEN SHOT AWAY / IN THE GLORIOUS ACTION OFF CAMPERDOWN / OCTOBER 11TH 1797 / JACK CRAWFORD WAS BORN IN POTTERY BANK SUNDERLAND 1775 / AND DIED IN HIS NATIVE TOWN 1831 / AGED 56 YEARS'

Details

Description: In relief, a Union Flag nailed to a diagonally-placed mast, a cannon and shot in the pediment above.
Type: Gravestone
Date Erected: 1888

Event

Battle of Camperdown

Event Date

1797

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Crawford, Jack
Age: 38
Date of Death: 1813
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: 'Church Monuments Society Newsletter' (Summer 1988) p.13.
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All Hallow's Church, Woolbeding, Sussex, England

Memorial at All Hallow’s Church, Woolbeding, Sussex commemorating Lt Col. Henry Arthur Lascelles d. 1913

Location

All Hallow's Church, Woolbeding, Sussex, England

Transcript

'WE PRAY YOU REMEMBER IN THE LORD / HENRY ARTHUR / AND / CAROLINE MARIA LASCELLES / HE SERVED IN THE NAVY AND ARMY LT. COL. 1882 / THEY LIVED AT WOOLBEDING TOGETHER OR IN SUCCESSION / FROM 1893-1945 / HE DIED JULY 29 1913 IN THE 71ST YEAR OF HIS AGE /S HE DIED NOVEMBER 6 1945 IN THE 89TH YEAR OF HER AGE'

Details

People

Lascelles, Henry Arthur
Age: 70
Date of Death: 29/7/1913
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Colin Harris 1994
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Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Headstone in Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh commemorating  Captain David F.B. Gorrie d. 1909 and Lieutenant David Todd Gorrie RNR d. 1927

Location

Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Transcript

'IN / MEMORY OF / CAPT. F.B. GORRIE / BELOVED HUSBAND OF / MARGARET TODD / LOST AT SEA 14th JAN. 1909 / ALSO / OUR DEARLY LOVED SON / DAVID TODD LIEUT R.N.R. / DIED 5TH APRIL 1927 AGED 35 YEARS / ALSO THE SAID MARGARET TODD / DIED 2nd MAY 1931'

Details

Description: Headstone on plinth.
Type: Headstone
Materials: Grey granite

People

Gorrie, David F. B.
Age:
Date of Death: 14/1/1909
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:
Gorrie, David Todd
Age: 35
Date of Death: 5/4/1927
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant
Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve

Extra

Notes: This cemetery is in private ownership and is in an overgrown and neglected condition.
Recorder: John Steele 1988
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Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating William Ellis RN d. 1854

Location

Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Transcript

'SACRED / THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAW [sic] ELLIS / AB / LATE OF BMS WINCHESTER [sic] / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECR 1st / AGED 25 / DEEPLY REGRETTED BY HIS SHIPMATES WHO / HAVE ERECTED THIS STONE / AS A TESTIMONY OF THEIR REGARD'

Details

Description: With carved flowers in a Chinese style above the inscription. Seems to have been carved by a local mason.
Type: Gravestone
Vessel: HMS Winchester

People

Ellis, William
Age: 25
Date of Death: 1/12/1854
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Christine Thomas
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Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London, England

Memorial at Highgate Cemetery commemorating Captain Henry Windham RN d. 1868

Location

Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London, England

Transcript

'To the Memory of / Captain HENRY WINDHAM, R.N. / 4th son of Admiral Windham, / Of Felbrigg, in the county of Norfolk / Born 22 Oct, 1809, died 10th Nov., 1868'

Details

People

Windham, Henry
Age: 59
Date of Death: 10/11/1868
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Frederick Teague Cansick 'Epitaphs of Middlesex' (London, 1869) vol ii, p. 154.
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Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland

Monument in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh commemorating Commander Edward Bremer RN d. 1847

Location

Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland

Transcript

'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / EDWARD GORDON BREMER / COMMANDER R.N. / ELDEST SON OF / SIR J. J. GORDON BREMER / K.C.B., K.C.H., / PRIORY, COMPTON, DEVON / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / AT EDINBURGH CASTLE / APRIL 8th 1847 / AGED 26 YEARS'

Details

Description: Square pedestal surmounted by an urn
Type: Monument
Position: South west area of churchyard
Materials: Sandstone

People

Bremer, Edward Gordon
Age: 26
Date of Death: 8/4/1847
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Stone badly affected by lichen, in shadow of large trees.
Recorder: John Steele, 13/6/1988
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Naval and Military Cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone at Portland, Dorset, commemorating Frederick Stone d. 1905

Location

Naval and Military Cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'FREDERICK STONE / Boy H.M.S. 'Boscawen' / died / 6th March 1905. Aged 16'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (old) 352
Vessel: HMS Boscawen

People

Stone, Frederick
Age: 16
Date of Death: 6/3/1905
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Boy
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry 1987
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