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SS Philip and James Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Marble tablet in SS Philip and James Church, Cheltenham, commemorating Captain Henry Church RN d. 1845

Location

SS Philip and James Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'Sacred / to the memory of / Captain Henry Church R.N. / (of Cheltenham) / who departed this life / on the 12th July 1845 / aged 52 years

Details

Type: Marble tablet

People

Church, Henry
Age: 52
Date of Death: 12/7/1845
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Gravestone to same individual in churchyard.

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Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, England

Memorial in Leckhampton, Gloucestershire commemorating Edward Wylde d. 1855

Location

Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'Edward Randyll Wylde, RN died Anglesey 1 July 1855'

Details

People

Wylde, E. R.
Age:
Date of Death: 1/7/1855
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: David Saunders 1984

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  "transcript": "'Edward Randyll Wylde, RN died Anglesey 1 July 1855'",
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Upper Park Street Burial Ground, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Gravestone in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire commemorating William Barker d. 1835

Location

Upper Park Street Burial Ground, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Transcript

[16 year old drummer in Plymouth Division, Stone raised by colleagues] 'Forced by Death to leave thee here / To the Devouring Worm / Yet Friendship and the Soldiers tear / Embalms their Comrades Urn / And though no Laurel wreath was thine / Nor deeds of high Renown / Yet man has gained a prize divine / An everlasting Crown'

Details

Type: Gravestone

People

Barker, William
Age: 16
Date of Death: 12/9/1835
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Drummer
Organisation: Royal Marines

Extra

Bibliography: Lawrence Phillips 'Royal Marines Graves at Pembroke Dock', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol.. 68, p.438 (Greenwich, 1982).
Recorder: Lawrence Philips

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  "transcript": "[16 year old drummer in Plymouth Division, Stone raised by colleagues] 'Forced by Death to leave thee here / To the Devouring Worm / Yet Friendship and the Soldiers tear / Embalms their Comrades Urn / And though no Laurel wreath was thine / Nor deeds of high Renown / Yet man has gained a prize divine / An everlasting Crown'",
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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England

Gravestone in Church of St Mary the Virgin, Lydney, Gloucestershire commemorating Walter Hyett d. 1913

Location

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'In Loving Memory / of / WALTER HENRY HYETT / Beloved husband of / Annie Hyett / of Spring Meadow Lydney / who died June 8th 1913 / In the midst of life we are in death / also of my dear son / ALBERT HENRY HYETT / who was killed in action at Salonica / October 25 1917, age 29 years / Interred at Osman Kamila Salonica / We cannot Lord the purpose see / All is good that is done by thee / His duty nobly done'

Details

Description: Carved with foul anchor
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard, older area at rear

People

Hyett, Walter Henry
Age:
Date of Death: 8/6/1913
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER.
Recorder: Roberta Harlow 1997

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  "transcript": "'In Loving Memory / of / WALTER HENRY HYETT / Beloved husband of / Annie Hyett / of Spring Meadow Lydney / who died June 8th 1913 / In the midst of life we are in death / also of my dear son / ALBERT HENRY HYETT / who was killed in action at Salonica / October 25 1917, age 29 years / Interred at Osman Kamila Salonica / We cannot Lord the purpose see / All is good that is done by thee / His duty nobly done'",
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Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Memorial in Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire commemorating Admiral Isaac Coffin d. 1839

Location

Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'To the memory of / Admiral / Sir Isaac Coffin Bart. / & G.C.H. / who died 2nd July 1839 / aged 80 years / and lies / interred in the vaults / of this church'

Details

People

Coffin, Isaac
Age: 80
Date of Death: 2/7/1839
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

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  "transcript": "'To the memory of / Admiral / Sir Isaac Coffin Bart. / & G.C.H. / who died 2nd July 1839 / aged 80 years / and lies / interred in the vaults / of this church'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire commemorating Admiral Isaac Coffin d. 1839</p>",
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Charlton Cemetery, London, England

Memorial in Charlton Cemetery, London commemorating Peter Barlow d. 1862

Location

Charlton Cemetery, London, England

Details

People

Barlow, Peter
Age: 86
Date of Death: 1862
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Mathematician
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Born 1776, pioneer in magnetism invented a method to compensate compass error in ships.
Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 99.

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Endsor, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England

Wall tablet commemorating Lieutenant Alexander Baker RN in Chatsworth, Derbyshire d. 1816

Location

Endsor, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England

Transcript

'TO THE MEMORY OF / ALEXANDER BARKER / ONLY SON OF GEORGE AND DEBORAH BARKER / LATE OF THIS VILLAGE; / WHO DIED AT TOTLEY VIII FEBRUARY MDCCCXXII / AGED LXXVII YEARS / AND OF / ELIZABETH HIS WIFE, / DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND DEBORAH BOSSLEY, / OF BAKEWELL; / WHO DIED XXVII MAY MDCCCXVI, AGED LXVI / ALSO OF / DEBORAH, ELIZABETH, / JAMES, AND / ELIZABETH THEIR CHILDREN; / WHO DIED OF TENDER AGE, / ALSO OF CALEB THEIR ELDEST SON, / WHO DIED XXIV JULY MDCCCXIV, AGED XLII / AND ALSO OF / GEORGE ALEXANDER THEIR THIRD SON, / A LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY, / ON BOARD THE SWIFTSURE IN THE BATTLE OF / TRAFALGAR; / WHO DIED AT CHESTERFIELD VI DECEMBER / MDCCCXVI, AGED XXXI. / ALL WERE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCHYARD / EXCEPT ELIZABETH THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER / WHO DIED AND WAS BURIED AT CHESTERFIELD'

Details

Description: White marble wall tablet on black mount. A draped urn above the inscription tablet.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: West end of nave
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Swiftsure

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Barker, George Alexander
Age: 31
Date of Death: 6/12/1816
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: A Lieutenant in the Royal Navy aboard the Swiftsure at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805. Died in Chesterfield December 1816 aged 31.
Recorder: G.R. Simpson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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  "transcript": "'TO THE MEMORY OF / ALEXANDER BARKER / ONLY SON OF GEORGE AND DEBORAH BARKER / LATE OF THIS VILLAGE; / WHO DIED AT TOTLEY VIII FEBRUARY MDCCCXXII / AGED LXXVII YEARS / AND OF / ELIZABETH HIS WIFE, / DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND DEBORAH BOSSLEY, / OF BAKEWELL; / WHO DIED XXVII MAY MDCCCXVI, AGED LXVI / ALSO OF / DEBORAH, ELIZABETH, / JAMES, AND / ELIZABETH THEIR CHILDREN; / WHO DIED OF TENDER AGE, / ALSO OF CALEB THEIR ELDEST SON, / WHO DIED XXIV JULY MDCCCXIV, AGED XLII / AND ALSO OF / GEORGE ALEXANDER THEIR THIRD SON, / A LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY, / ON BOARD THE SWIFTSURE IN THE BATTLE OF / TRAFALGAR; / WHO DIED AT CHESTERFIELD VI DECEMBER / MDCCCXVI, AGED XXXI. / ALL WERE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCHYARD / EXCEPT ELIZABETH THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER / WHO DIED AND WAS BURIED AT CHESTERFIELD'",
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St Mary's Church, Batsford Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England

Wall tablet in St Mary’s Church, Batsford Arboretum, Gloucestershire commemorating Ernest Freeman-Mitford d. 1939

Location

St Mary's Church, Batsford Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'In very loving memory of / The Honble Ernest Rupert Bertram / Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford / R.N.V.R. 1914-1918 / Youngest son of 1st Baron Redesdale / Born 3rd Sept 1895 / Died 7th August 1939.

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: Interior

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Freeman-Mitford, Ernest Rupert Bertram Ogilvy
Age: 44
Date of Death: 7/8/1939
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

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St Augustine's Church, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England

Window in St Augustine’s Church, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire dedicated to Commander Thomas Hoskins RN d. 1861

Location

St Augustine's Church, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England

Transcript

'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOMAS HOSKINS OF BROXBOURNE HOUSE IN THIS PARISH, ESQUIRE, COMMANDER. R.N. WHO DIED 1st FEBRUARY 1861, AND ANNA HIS WIFE, WHO DIED 2nd. OCTOBER 1866 ALSO THEIR CHILDREN EMMA ELIZABETH HOSKINS: FRANCIS HAMILTON BRITAIN: EDWARD HAMILTON HOSKINS: WILLIAM HENRY HOSKINS AND LOUISA MARY HOSKINS: THIS WINDOW WAS PLACED HERE IN 1905'

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Type: Window

People

Hoskins, Thomas
Age:
Date of Death: 1/2/1861
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Colin Harris 1992

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St Nicholas's Church, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England

Window in St Nicholas’s Church, Elstree, Hertfordshire dedicated to Lieutenant Guy Micklem RN d. 1944

Location

St Nicholas's Church, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England

Transcript

'Dedicated in memory of / Lieut: GUY NOEL MICKLEM D.S.C. // ROYAL NAVY, who gave his life / for his country JULY A.D. 1944'

Details

Description: Pair of windows depicting Christ and St Nicholas. Badge of Fleet Air Arm in tracery light.
Type: Window
Artists: John Ninian Comper

Event Category

1939-1945 Second World War

People

Micklem, Guy Noel
Age:
Date of Death: 18/07/1944
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER.

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters