Memorial at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Woodleigh, Devon commemorating William West d. 1885
Location
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Woodleigh, Devon, England
Transcript
'IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / WILLIAM CLARK WEST / (STOKER) / WHO WAS RUN OVER BY A TRAIN / NEAR KINGSBRIDGE ROAD STATION / MAY 23RD 1885 / AGED 20 YEARS / ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION MADE / ON BOARD H.M.S. INDUS / THE CUP WAS BITTER, THE STING SEVERE, / TO PART FROM HIM WE LOVED SO DEAR, / THE TRIAL IS HARD, WE'LL NOT COMPLAIN, / BUT TRUST IN CHRIST TO MEET AGAIN.'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Slate Vessel: HMS Indus, HMS Northumberland
People
West, William Clark Age: 20 Date of Death: 23/5/1885 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Whilst returning home to visit his family at Woodleigh, William West lost his hat out of the train window. He decided to attempt to retrieve it and was run down by a goods train. He was a stoker on HMS Northumberland, administered by HMS Indus.
Bibliography: 'South Hams Society Bulletin' October 2011
Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating John William Eagland RN d. 1901
Location
Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of John William EAGLAND, died at Hong Kong 26th May 1901, aged 38 years. This stone was erected by the officers and men of H.M.S. 'BONAVENTURE'
Details
Type: Gravestone Vessel: HMS Bonaventure
People
Eagland, John William Age: 38 Date of Death: 26/5/1901 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Plaque at the P&O terminal, Portsmouth, dedicated to Thomas Reeves VC d. 1862
Location
P & O terminal, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'SEAMAN THOMAS REEVES, V.C. / ROYAL NAVY 1828-1862 / Thomas Reeves one of the earliest naval VC's / lies buried within this port. He won the Victoria / Cross for valour at the battle of Inkerman during / the Crimean War'
Details
Description: A representation of the Victoria Cross with the inscription below. Type: Plaque Materials: Wood
Event
Crimea War
Event Date
1853-1854
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Reeves, Thomas Age: 34 Date of Death: 1862 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Victoria Cross winner. Death notice in the 'Hampshire Telegraph' 9 August 1862 p. 5. Bibliography: Clifford Bentley 'Our English Heroes' ' This England' (winter, 2000).
Memorial at St Nicholas’s Church, Deptford commemorating Peter Pett d. 1652 naval shipwright
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Deptford, London, England
Transcript
'MONVMENTVM HOC / OMNES QVI ASPEXERINT / INCLYT VIRI PETRI PETT / ARMIGERI FAMAM ET LAVDES / BENIGNE AVDIANT / DIC IGITVR: LAPIS: EX HIS ENIM TV LITERIS / ET TANTI: VIRI HISTORIA VITAM ADEPTVS, IN MVLTA DVRABIS / SECVLA, DIC CVIVS SACRA OSSA IVXTA TE TAM QVIETE CVSTODIVNTUR/ILIVS: SCILICET QVI FVIT PATRIAE SVAE DECVS PATRIAE SVAE MAGNV / MONIMENTVM QVIPPE QVI NON SOLVM NAVTICAM NOSTRAM RESTITVIT / REN VAERVM ILLVD EXIMIVM ET NOV V NAVIGII ORNAMENTVM, QVOD/NOSTRA FRIGATVM NVNCVPANT, HOSTIBVS FORMIDOLOSVM SVIS / VTILL IMVM, ATQVE TVTISSIMVM, PRIMVS INVENIT QVI ARCHNAV= / PEGI MVNVS PER VIGINTI ET TRES ANNOS TANTA CVM FIDE ET / SOLETIA GESSIT, VT HINC PLANE APPARERET, SE NON SVVM SED/BONVM PVBLICVM CORDI HABVISSE, IVSTVS SANE VIR FVIT, ET SVI/SLCVLI NOAH, QVI POSTQVAM CVM DEO AMBVLAVIT, ET / SVPRADICTAM ILLIVS INVENTIONEM IN LVCEM PROTVLIT(QVE FVIT / ARCAE INSTAR, VNDE NOSTR V MARIS DOMINVM IVRAQVE NOSTRA / E NAVFRAGIO PENE EREPTA SVNT,) EVOCATVS FVIT EX HVIVS MVNDI/TEMPESTATIBVS, DEO GVBERNANTE, ATQUE ANIMA ILLIVS IN SALVATORIS / SVI GREMIO, TANQVAM IN GLORIAE ARCA REPOSITA OBIIT VERO / IVLII 31 AETATIS SVAE ANNO 60 POST REDEMPTORIS NOSTRI / NATIVITATEM 1652 EPITAPHIVM / QVANTVM ANTIQVA VIRIS TRIBVERENT TEMPORA MAGNIS / VTILE QVI PATRIAE ATTVLERINT VEL NOBILE QVICQVAM, / TANTVM HANC AETATEM TIBI PETTE, REPENDERE OPORTET / ERGO INTER VETERES TV COLLAVDABERE SEMPER, / NAMQVE TIBI HOC PROPRIVM, EST RETRO VT TVA FAMA RECVRRAT / LAVDIBVS ATQVE NOBIS PRISCORVM IVNGAT HONORES. / RENOVATVM IVSSV, JOHANNIS DAVIDIS ROLT DEPTFORDIENSIS / TRMIGERI 1822' [Translation by Nathan Drew] 'Let all who see this monument listen kindly to the praise of that illustrious man, PETER PETT, Esquire. SPEAK, THEN, STONE WHO HAST won long centuries of existence FROM THIS INSCRIPTION and the history of so great a man; speak and say whose sacred bones so quietly repose hard by. One who was the glory and bulwark of his country; one who not only restored the efficiency of our navy, but first invented that new and brilliant invention to it which is called a FRIGATE, so formidable to our enemies, so useful to ourselves, and so safe an instrument of naval war; one who for twenty three years filled the post of MASTER SHIPBUILDER with such fidelity and industry as to make it evident that he had in his heart only the public good and not his own. He was truly a just man, the NOAH of his age, who, after he had walked with God and brought to light the above-mentioned invention-which was an ARK by means whereof our naval supremacy and our laws were saved from shipwreck-was called from the tempests of this world by the ordinance of God, and placed in his Saviour's arms as in an ARK of glory. He died July 31, in the 60th year of his age, of the nativity of our Redeemer, 1652. EPITAPH Whatever praise the ancient ages gave to those who could their country serve or save; Such praises, PETT, this age should give to thee; 'Mongst ancient worthies thou shalt lauded be. Thy honours backward run, and add thy name, To th'roll of heroes in an equal fame Renovated on the instructions of John David Rolt, of Deptford, Esquire, 1822'
Details
Description: In architectural surround, flanked by putti with a spade and skull, arms above, ships hull below. Type: Wall monument Position: North wall west pilaster Materials: Marble Artists: John Christmas
People
Pett, Peter Age: 60 Date of Death: 31/7/1652 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Shipbuilder Organisation: Royal Dockyards
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Notes: Damaged by enemy raid in 1940. Only the inscription now remains. DOSSIER. John Christmas was a ship carver to the Navy and with his brother Matthias worked on the carving of the 'Sovereign of the Seas'. Bibliography: J. Summerson 'Monuments in St Nicholas Deptford', 'Mariners Mirror' vol. 27, pp. 282-3 (Cambridge, 1941); Adam White 'A biographical Dictionary of London Tomb Sculptors', 'The Sixty-first volume of the Walpole Society' p. 25 (1999).
Monument in St Paul’s Cathedral, London commemorating Captain George Blagdon Westcott RN d. 1798
Location
St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Transcript
'ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE / TO THE MEMORY OF/GEORGE BLAGDON WESTCOTT, / CAPTAIN OF THE MAJESTIC; / WHO AFTER THIRTY-THREE YEARS OF MERITORIOUS SERVICE, / FELL GLORIOUSLY / IN THE VICTORY OBTAINED OVER THE FRENCH FLEET OFF ABOUKIR, / THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST IN THE YEAR MDCCXCVIII, / IN THE FORTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HIS AGE'
Details
Description: Westcott clad in a brief tunic sinks into the arms of Victory. On the base, a relief of the River Nile and his tributaries flanked by sphynxes. On either side are panels showing the battle, one of which shows 'L'Orient' exploding. Type: Monument Position: South side nave Materials: White marble Date Erected: 1806 Artists: Thomas Banks Vessel: HMS Majestic
Event
Battle of the Nile
Event Date
1798
Event Category
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Westcott, George Blagdon Age: 45 Date of Death: 1/8/1798 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Relief of 'Nile' on the base based on a Roman original. Another monument erected by subscription in Honiton. Date of contract 26/04/1803, value £4, 200. Bibliography: K.A. Esdaile 'English Church Monuments' (London, 1946) p. 69; Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny 'Taste and the Antique; the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900' (London, New Haven, 1981) p. 273; 'Naval History of the Present Year, 1806', 'Naval Chronicle' vol. 15, pp. 72-87 (London, 1806). Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1882 Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Edmund Haddy d. 1898
Location
Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England
Transcript
'In loving memory / EDMUND HADDY E.R.A. / Son of R & A HADDY / of St Germans Cornwall / who was drowned from H.M.S. 'Benbow' / Dec 20th 1898 interred here Feb 16 1899 / aged 22 years 'And the sea shall give up her dead'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Church of England (old) 263 Vessel: HMS Benbow
People
Haddy, Edmund Age: 22 Date of Death: 20/12/1898 Cause of Death: Maritime Accident Rank / Occupation: Engine Room Artificer Organisation: Royal Navy
Headstone in Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating John Arthur d. 1857
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / MR JOHN ARTHUR / OF NOTTINGHAM STREET MARYLEBONE, / WHO DIED 10TH JANUARY 1857 / AGED 69 YEARS / ALSO OF / ARABELLA SARAH / DAUGHTER OF HENRY ROBERT AND / MARIA ELIZABETH ARTHUR / WHO DIED 3RD JANUARY 1858 AGED 13 MONTHS / ALSO OF / ARABELLA WIDOW OF THE ABOVE MR JOHN ARTHUR WHO DIED 20 JULY 1868 AGED 80 YEARS / ALSO OF / ELIZA FRANCIS / DAUGHTER OF ABOVE / JOHN AND ARABELLA ARTHUR / WHO DIED...JULY 187... AGED 30 YEARS / ALSO OF / HENRY ROBERT ARTHUR / WHO DIED 28 JULY 1898.'
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Description: Headstone with a rounded top, concave shoulders an oval relief above the inscription carved in relief with a foul anchor with the inscription 'TRAFALGAR' above it.
Type: Ledger Position: On path of central avenue Materials: Pink granite
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Arthur, John Age: 69 Date of Death: 10/1/1857 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet in St Giles’s Parish Church, Scarth, Lincolnshire commemorating Commander Alexander Burgoyne Howe RN d. 1865
Location
St Giles's Parish Church, Scarth, Lincolnshire, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Alexander Burgoyne Howe R.N. died 14 Jan 1865 aged 81 years. Also Alexander Howe son of Above died Jeddah on the Red Sea 1854 aged 28 years'
Details
Type: Tablet
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Howe, Alexander Burgoyne Age: 81 Date of Death: 14/1/1865 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: C. Flintham
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