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Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset, England

Wall tablet in Christchurch Priory, Dorset, dedicated to Vice-Admiral John Lloyd d. 1778

Location

Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset, England

Transcript

'SACRED / to the Memory of / IOHN LLOYD Vice Admiral of the Blue / who Died Feby. The 26th 1778. / Aged 68 / Likewise to the memory of ELIZABETH his wife / The Daughter of FRANCIS GULSTON Esqr. / of Widdial Hall in the County of Herts. / who was afterwards widow of / GUSTAVUS BRANDER Esqr. / who departed this life June the 3d. / in the Year 1799 Aged 63'

Details

Description: The Lloyd arms below the inscription in relief, above it naval trophies and at the top, a flaming urn.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Sanctuary
Materials: Marble

People

Lloyd, John
Age: 68
Date of Death: 26/2/1778
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

JSON

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  "transcript": "'SACRED / to the Memory of / IOHN LLOYD Vice Admiral of the Blue / who Died Feby. The 26th 1778. / Aged 68 / Likewise to the memory of ELIZABETH his wife / The Daughter of FRANCIS GULSTON Esqr. / of Widdial Hall in the County of Herts. / who was afterwards widow of / GUSTAVUS BRANDER Esqr. / who departed this life June the 3d. / in the Year 1799 Aged 63'",
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  "extra": {
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St Jude's Church, Portsmouth, England

Wall monument in St Jude’s Church, Portsmouth commemorating Captain E.T. Nott RN d. 1871

Location

St Jude's Church, Portsmouth, England

Transcript

'IN / MEMORY OF / CAPT. E.T. NOTT R.N., / WHO DIED IN COMMAND OF / H.M. INDIAN TROOP SHIP / MALABAR / IN THE SUEZ CANAL OCTOBER 26 1871 / AND WAS BURIED AT ISMALIA / ON THE FOLLOWING DAY / This tablet is erected by / the officers and ships company / of the Malabar and the military / officers chiefly of the 1st Batallion / of the 18th The Royal Irish Regiment / who were taking passage in the ship / at the time to mark their sense of / his public and private worth and / their regard and esteem'

Details

Description: Gothic design, the inscription tablet flanked by pilasters, a crocketed gable above, a pinnacle on each side.
Type: Wall monument
Position: Clergy vestry, East wall
Vessel: Malabar

People

Nott, E.T.
Age:
Date of Death: 26/10/1871
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Signed by maker.
Bibliography: Tim Backhouse http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/

JSON

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  "location": "St Jude's Church, Portsmouth, England",
  "transcript": "'IN / MEMORY OF / CAPT. E.T. NOTT R.N., / WHO DIED IN COMMAND OF / H.M. INDIAN TROOP SHIP / MALABAR / IN THE SUEZ CANAL OCTOBER 26 1871 / AND WAS BURIED AT ISMALIA / ON THE FOLLOWING DAY / This tablet is erected by / the officers and ships company / of the Malabar and the military / officers chiefly of the 1st Batallion / of the 18th The Royal Irish Regiment / who were taking passage in the ship / at the time to mark their sense of / his public and private worth and / their regard and esteem'",
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  "images": [],
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    "position": "Clergy vestry, East wall",
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    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "",
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    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
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  "extra": {
    "notes": "Signed by maker.",
    "bibliography": "Tim Backhouse http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/",
    "recorder": "",
    "photographer": ""  }
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Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating Frederick Skinner RN d. 1900

Location

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

Transcript

'To the memory of Frederick SKINNER, sailmaker H.M.S. 'Undaunted', who died at Hong Kong, September 16th 1900, aged 32 years. Erected by the ship's company of H.M.S. 'Undaunted''

Details

Description: Cross on stepped plinth.
Type: Cross
Vessel: HMS Undaunted

People

Skinner, Frederick
Age: 32
Date of Death: 16/9/1900
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Sailmaker
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Christine Thomas 1988

JSON

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  "id": "M609",
  "location": "Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "'To the memory of Frederick SKINNER, sailmaker H.M.S. 'Undaunted', who died at Hong Kong, September 16th 1900, aged 32 years. Erected by the ship's company of H.M.S. 'Undaunted''",
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    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
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  "extra": {
    "notes": "",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Christine Thomas 1988",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England

Gravestone at Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough commemorating John Potter Matthews d. 1892

Location

Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England

Transcript

'JOHN POTTER MATTHEWS Carpenter who was accidentally killed on board H.M.S. Endymion at Hull December 10 1892 Aged 56'

Details

Vessel: HMS Endymion

People

Matthews, John Potter
Age: 56
Date of Death: 10/12/1892
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Carpenter
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Alex Chatwin 1980

JSON

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  "location": "Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England",
  "transcript": "'JOHN POTTER MATTHEWS Carpenter who was accidentally killed on board H.M.S. Endymion at Hull December 10 1892 Aged 56'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone at Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough commemorating John Potter Matthews d. 1892</p>",
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    "date": "",
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  "extra": {
    "notes": "",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Alex Chatwin 1980",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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St Nicholas's Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England

Monument in Newcastle Cathedral commemorating Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood d. 1810

Location

St Nicholas's Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF VICE-ADMIRAL CUTHBERT BARON COLLINGWOOD, WHO WAS BORN IN THIS TOWN ON THE 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1750, OF AN ANCIENT FAMILY. HE SERVED WITH GREAT BRAVERY IN THE ACTION OF THE 1ST OF JUNE, 1794; AND BORE A DISTINGUISHED PART IN THE VICTORY OFF CAPE ST VINCENT IN 1797. IN THE GREAT BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR HE LED THE BRITISH SQUADRONS INTO ACTION, AND PRESSED FORWARD WITH HIS SINGLE SHIP INTO THE MIDST OF THE COMBINED FLEETS OF FRANCE AND SPAIN. ON THAT DAY, AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS COMMANDER AND FRIEND LORD NELSON, HE COMPLETED THE MOST GLORIOUS AND DECISIVE VICTORY WHICH IS RECORDED IN THE NAVAL ANNALS OF THE WORLD. IN THE COMMAND OF THE MEDITERRANEAN TO WHICH HE SUCCEEDED, HE DISPLAYED UNRIVALLED SKILL AS A SEAMAN, AND GREAT TALENTS AND ADDRESS IN THE CONDUCT OF MANY IMPORTANT NEGOTIATIONS. AFTER FIVE YEARS, DURING WHICH HE NEVER QUITTED HIS SHIP FOR A SINGLE NIGHT, HE BECAME ANXIOUS TO REVISIT HIS NATIVE LAND; BUT BEING INFORMED THAT HIS SERVICE COULD ILL BE SPARED IN THOSE CRITICAL TIMES, HE REPLIED, THAT HIS LIFE WAS HIS COUNTRY'S, AND PERSEVERED IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS ARDUOUS DUTIES, TILL EXHAUSTED WITH FATIGUE, HE EXPIRED, ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE VILLE DE PARIS ON 7TH MARCH, 1810, IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. IN PRIVATE LIFE HE WAS GENEROUS AND AFFECTIONATE - A PIOUS, JUST, AND EXEMPLARY MAN. A MONUMENT WAS ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY PARLIAMENT, IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PAUL WHERE HE LIES BY THE SIDE OF THE HERO TO WHOM HE SO WORTHILY SUCCEEDED IN THE VICTORY OF TRAFALGAR. HIS WIDOW (DAUGHTER OF JOHN ERASMUS BLACKETT, ESQ., OF THIS TOWN), AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS, HAD CAUSED THIS CENOTAPH TO BE ERECTED; AND ON LADY COLLINGWOOD'S DEATH, ON THE 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1819, IT WAS INSCRIBED TO BOTH THEIR REVERED AND LAMENTED PARENTS, BY THEIR GRATEFUL CHILDREN'

Details

Description: In the form of a draped marble cenotaph, Lord Collingwood's arms placed on a naval sword. In front of the cenotaph, a bust of Collingwood on a inscribed plinth. It stands on a rock with a frieze of waves carved across the base of the memorial. Above the inscription three overlapping wreaths containing the inscriptions '1ST OF JUNE', 'ST VINCENT', 'TRAFALGAR'.
Type: Monument
Position: West End
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: 1819
Artists: John Charles Felix Rossi; R. Cockrell

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Collingwood, Cuthbert
Age: 60
Date of Death: 7/3/1810
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Collingwood's date of birth 1748.
Bibliography: Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964); Geoffrey Murray 'The Life of Admiral Collingwood' (London, 1936), Ed. Colin White 'The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives and Memorials' (London, 2005) p. 44.
Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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  "location": "St Nicholas's Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England",
  "transcript": "'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF VICE-ADMIRAL CUTHBERT BARON COLLINGWOOD, WHO WAS BORN IN THIS TOWN ON THE 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1750, OF AN ANCIENT FAMILY. HE SERVED WITH GREAT BRAVERY IN THE ACTION OF THE 1ST OF JUNE, 1794; AND BORE A DISTINGUISHED PART IN THE VICTORY OFF CAPE ST VINCENT IN 1797. IN THE GREAT BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR HE LED THE BRITISH SQUADRONS INTO ACTION, AND PRESSED FORWARD WITH HIS SINGLE SHIP INTO THE MIDST OF THE COMBINED FLEETS OF FRANCE AND SPAIN. ON THAT DAY, AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS COMMANDER AND FRIEND LORD NELSON, HE COMPLETED THE MOST GLORIOUS AND DECISIVE VICTORY WHICH IS RECORDED IN THE NAVAL ANNALS OF THE WORLD. IN THE COMMAND OF THE MEDITERRANEAN TO WHICH HE SUCCEEDED, HE DISPLAYED UNRIVALLED SKILL AS A SEAMAN, AND GREAT TALENTS AND ADDRESS IN THE CONDUCT OF MANY IMPORTANT NEGOTIATIONS. AFTER FIVE YEARS, DURING WHICH HE NEVER QUITTED HIS SHIP FOR A SINGLE NIGHT, HE BECAME ANXIOUS TO REVISIT HIS NATIVE LAND; BUT BEING INFORMED THAT HIS SERVICE COULD ILL BE SPARED IN THOSE CRITICAL TIMES, HE REPLIED, THAT HIS LIFE WAS HIS COUNTRY'S, AND PERSEVERED IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS ARDUOUS DUTIES, TILL EXHAUSTED WITH FATIGUE, HE EXPIRED, ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE VILLE DE PARIS ON 7TH MARCH, 1810, IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. IN PRIVATE LIFE HE WAS GENEROUS AND AFFECTIONATE - A PIOUS, JUST, AND EXEMPLARY MAN. A MONUMENT WAS ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY PARLIAMENT, IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PAUL WHERE HE LIES BY THE SIDE OF THE HERO TO WHOM HE SO WORTHILY SUCCEEDED IN THE VICTORY OF TRAFALGAR. HIS WIDOW (DAUGHTER OF JOHN ERASMUS BLACKETT, ESQ., OF THIS TOWN), AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS, HAD CAUSED THIS CENOTAPH TO BE ERECTED; AND ON LADY COLLINGWOOD'S DEATH, ON THE 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1819, IT WAS INSCRIBED TO BOTH THEIR REVERED AND LAMENTED PARENTS, BY THEIR GRATEFUL CHILDREN'",
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    "position": "West End",
    "materials": "Marble",
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    "artists": "John Charles Felix Rossi; R. Cockrell",
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    "event":"Battle of Trafalgar",
    "date": "1805",
    "category": "1803-1815 Napoleonic War"  },
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    "notes": "Collingwood's date of birth 1748.",
    "bibliography": "Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964); Geoffrey Murray 'The Life of Admiral Collingwood' (London, 1936), Ed. Colin White 'The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives and Memorials' (London, 2005) p. 44.",
    "recorder": "B. Tomlinson",
    "photographer": "B. Tomlinson"  }
}

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St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales

Gravestone at St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Beaumaris, Anglesey commemorating John Williams d. 1873

Location

St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales

Transcript

'UNDERNEATH / lie the remains of GEORGE son of / John Williams Pilot by Elizabeth / His Wife he Died 27th of Jany 1931 / Aged 6 years / Also / ELIZABETH WILLIAMS / wife of the above JOHN WILLIAMS / died Feby 24th 1858 Aged 75 / Also / the above JOHN WILLIAMS / died February 5th 1873 / AGED 88 YEARS'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Slate

People

Williams, John
Age: 88
Date of Death: 5/2/1873
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Pilot
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Stone laid flat.

JSON

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  "location": "St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales",
  "transcript": "'UNDERNEATH / lie the remains of GEORGE son of / John Williams Pilot by Elizabeth / His Wife he Died 27th of Jany 1931 / Aged 6 years / Also / ELIZABETH WILLIAMS / wife of the above JOHN WILLIAMS / died Feby 24th 1858 Aged 75 / Also / the above JOHN WILLIAMS / died February 5th 1873 / AGED 88 YEARS'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone at St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Beaumaris, Anglesey commemorating John Williams d. 1873</p>",
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    "bibliography": "",
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}

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East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich, London, England

Gravestone at East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich commemorating Henry Parker, a Trafalgar veteran d. 1873

Location

East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY / OF HENRY PARKER / CAPTAIN R.N. / MIDSHIPMAN OF BELLEISLE / AT TRAFALGAR. / DIED APRIL 7TH 1873 / AGED 84. / BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH / DIE IN THE LORD FOR THEY / REST FROM THEIR LABOURS'

Details

Type: Headstone
Vessel: HMS Belleisle

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Parker, Henry
Age: 84
Date of Death: 7/4/1873
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981).
Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1988
Photographer: Dr Pieter van der Merwe 2020

JSON

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  "transcript": "'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY / OF HENRY PARKER / CAPTAIN R.N. / MIDSHIPMAN OF BELLEISLE / AT TRAFALGAR. / DIED APRIL 7TH 1873 / AGED 84. / BLESSED ARE THE DEAD  WHICH / DIE IN THE LORD FOR THEY / REST FROM THEIR LABOURS'",
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  "details": {
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    "position": "",
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    "dateErected": "",
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    "vessel": "HMS Belleisle"  },
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    "event":"Battle of Trafalgar",
    "date": "1805",
    "category": "1803-1815 Napoleonic War"  },
  "people": [{"name":"Parker, Henry","age":"84","dateofdeath":"7/4/1873","causeofdeath":"Unknown/None","rankOccupation":"Midshipman RN","organisation":"Royal Navy"}],
  "extra": {
    "notes": "",
    "bibliography": "Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981).",
    "recorder": "B. Tomlinson 1988",
    "photographer": "Dr Pieter van der Merwe 2020"  }
}

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St Nicholas's Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Memorial gravestone at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk commemorating Thomas Johnson, shipbuilder, d.1836

Location

St Nicholas's Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Transcript

'Thomas JOHNSON, (Formerly of Lowestoft) shipbuilder died 16 March 1836 aged 50'

Details

Position: Churchyard

People

Johnson, Thomas
Age: 50
Date of Death: 16/3/1836
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Shipbuilder
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1967

JSON

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  "post_id": "2898",
  "id": "M2331",
  "location": "St Nicholas's Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England",
  "transcript": "'Thomas JOHNSON, (Formerly of Lowestoft) shipbuilder died 16 March 1836 aged 50'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial gravestone at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk commemorating Thomas Johnson, shipbuilder, d.1836</p>",
  "images": [],
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  "details": {
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    "recorder": "Reverend William Henry Donnan 1967",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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Esplanade Burial Ground, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, Rest of the World

Memorial at the Esplanade Burial Ground, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka commemorating Bertram Mitford RN d. 1869

Location

Esplanade Burial Ground, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of Bertram Mitford R.N. paymaster of H.M.S. Cossack who was drowned at Trincomalee July 10 1869 age 32 years'

Details

Vessel: HMS Cossack

People

Mitford, Bertram
Age: 32
Date of Death: 10/7/1869
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Paymaster
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Formerly Ceylon.
Recorder: C. Flintham

JSON

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  "id": "M4512",
  "location": "Esplanade Burial Ground, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "'Sacred to the memory of Bertram Mitford R.N. paymaster of H.M.S. Cossack who was drowned at Trincomalee July 10 1869 age 32 years'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at the Esplanade Burial Ground, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka commemorating Bertram Mitford RN d. 1869</p>",
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    "event":"",
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  "extra": {
    "notes": "Formerly Ceylon.",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "C. Flintham",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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

Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating Alexander Smith d. 1868

Location

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

Transcript

'Sacred / to the memory / of / Alexander Smith / engineer P&O's SN Co's SS Pekin / died August 20th 1868 / aged 27 years / this stone has been erected as a / tribute of respect by the P&O's Co's engineers on this station'

Details

Type: Headstone
Vessel: SS Pekin

People

Smith, Alexander
Age: 27
Date of Death: 20/8/1868
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Engineer
Organisation: P & O Line

Extra

Notes: Iron paddle steamer, launched 1846 as 'Sultan', built by Tod & McGregor, Glasgow, renamed 1847, 1182 tons gross.
Recorder: Christine Thomas; Patricia Lim, Gwulo.com

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  "post_id": "2900",
  "id": "M359",
  "location": "Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "'Sacred / to the memory / of / Alexander Smith / engineer P&O's SN Co's SS Pekin / died August 20th 1868 / aged 27 years / this stone has been erected as a / tribute of respect by the P&O's Co's engineers on this station'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating  Alexander Smith d. 1868</p>",
  "images": [],
  "categories": ["Uncategorised"],
  "details": {
    "description": "",
    "type": "Headstone",
    "position": "",
    "materials": "",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "",
    "vessel": "SS Pekin"  },
  "event": {
    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
  "people": [{"name":"Smith, Alexander","age":"27","dateofdeath":"20/8/1868","causeofdeath":"Unknown/None","rankOccupation":"Engineer","organisation":"P & O Line"}],
  "extra": {
    "notes": "Iron paddle steamer, launched 1846 as 'Sultan', built by Tod & McGregor, Glasgow, renamed 1847, 1182 tons gross.",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Christine Thomas; Patricia Lim, Gwulo.com",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters