Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating Admiral Sir Richard Edward Tracey d. 1907
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
'IN/LOVING MEMORY OF / ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD / EDWARD TRACEY / KCB. / BORN 24 JAN 1837, / DIED 7 MARCH 1907 / AGED 70. / ...I THANK MY GOD / UPON ALL MY REMEMBRANCE / OF THEE. PHIL 1 ...ACRT', 'A...DEPARTED EVEN TO US / OLD COMMUNION STILL WITH US / STILL WITH US BEYOND THE VEIL / PRAISING PLEADING WITHOUT FAIL /', 'WITH THEM STILL OUR HEARTS WE RAISE / SHARE THEIR WORK AND JOIN THEIR PRAISE / RENDERING WORSHIP, THANKS AND LOVE / TO THE TRINITY ABOVE.'
Details
Description: Pedestal with cross broken off but leaning on it. The Friends of Kensal Green describe it as a marble gabled ledger and four step plinth surmounted by a cross and angel, rocks and an anchor on each side. Type: Memorial Position: 19220/115/PS Materials: Stone Artists: E.M. Lander
People
Tracey, Richard Edward Age: 70 Date of Death: 07/03/1907 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in the Esplanade Burial Ground, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka commemorating Anthony Henry Cooke RN d. 1823
Location
Esplanade Burial Ground, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Beneath this are laid the mortal remains of ANTHONY HENRY COOKE Late midshipman of HMS Liffey younger son of the late Bryan Cooke Esq of Owston in the County of York. At the early age of 22 it pleased God to afflict him with a liver complaint in which he departed this life in happy hope of a better through faith in the merits of his Saviour on the 10th February 1823 sincerely esteemed and lamented by his shipmates'
Details
Vessel: HMS Liffey
People
Cooke, Anthony Henry Age: 22 Date of Death: 10/2/1823 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Floor slabs in the Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich commemorating US citizens who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War
Location
Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'15th JUNE 1941 / On this day came three citizens of / THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / The first if their countrymen to become Sea-Officers of / THE ROYAL NAVY / IN MEMORY OF THOSE AMERICANS / WHO, BETWEEN 1939-1941 / WHEN THE FATE OF GREAT BRITAIN / AND THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM / HUNG IN THE BALANCE / VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE IN / THE ROYAL NAVY', 'GURDAN BUCK / ALEX HENRY CHERRY / OSWALD BIRRELL DEITER / EDWARD MORTIMOR FERRIS / DAVID GIBSON / JACK EDWARD HAMPSON / GEORGE HOAGUE / WILLIAM PERKINS HOMANS / DRAPER LAURENCE KAUFFMAN / EDMUND WEBSTER KITTREDGE / CARL KONOW', 'DEREK ARMITAGE LEE / JOHN MATTHEW LEGGAT / PETER GREENE MORISON / JOHN STANLEY PARKER / CHARLES BURNHAM PORTER / HENRY FREMONT RIPLEY / EDWIN FAIRMAN RUSSELL / JOHN ALBERT STILWELL / WILLIAM ERWIN GIBSON TAYLOR / DAVID ARNOLD VAN EPPS'
Details
Description: Four inscribed marble slabs. Type: Floor tablet Position: Floor Materials: Marble Date Erected: 2001 Artists: Roger Francis
Event
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Parker, John Stanley Age: Date of Death: 18/10/1941 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RNVR Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Ripley, Henry Fremont Age: Date of Death: 2/12/1960 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RNVR Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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Notes: Many of those commemorated survived the war and their dates of death are not presently recorded. DOSSIER. Recorder: R.E. White; Mrs Charlotte Hammond
Memorial in Blyth, Northumberland dedicated to those lost while serving aboard HMS ‘E30’ and HMS ‘Trident’
Location
Blyth Beach Cemetery, Blyth, Northumberland, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF', 'THEY THAT GO DOWN / TO THE SEA IN SHIPS / AND OCCUPY THEIR / BUSINESS IN GREAT / WATERS, THESE MEN SEE / THE WORKS OF THE LORD / AND HIS WONDERS IN / THE DEEP', 'ROBERT LARCOMBE P.O.TEL., AGED 32 YEARS / EDWARD A. HOWARD A.B. R.F.R. AGED 28 YEARS / JOHN SMITH STO. AGED 23 YEARS / WHO WERE KILLED AT SEA IN H.M.S. E30 APRIL 7TH 1916 / ALSO OF GEORGE J LYONS P.O. STO H.M.S. TRIDENT / WHO DIED APRIL 29TH 1916 AGED 40 YEARS / ERECTED BY THEIR SHIPMATES'
Details
Description: Memorial in the shape of a broken mast standing on a rocky plinth carved with and anchor, rope and lifebelt. A relief of the submarine E30 below.
Type: Memorial Materials: Stone Vessel: E30, HMS Tribune
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Howard, Edward A. Age: 28 Date of Death: 7/4/1916 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Larcombe, Robert Age: 32 Date of Death: 7/4/1916 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Petty Officer Organisation: Royal Navy Lyons, George Jack Age: 40 Date of Death: 28/4/1915 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Petty Officer Organisation: Royal Navy Smith, John Age: 23 Date of Death: 7/4/1916 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: The log of E30 has the following entry Tuesday 7th April 1916. No's 1.2 &3 batteries exploded. P.O. Larcombe, L/S Bonnamy. AB Howard & Sto Smith killed. Hands trying artificial respiration on deceased men with no effect. ADM 53 / 63209 reads ; Tuesday 11th April 1916. at Blyth. 0800 Funeral Party landed to convey Leading Seaman Bonnamy's body to Railway Station. P.M. Landed Funeral Party Lieut. Laidlaw in charge, to bury 3 Submarine Ratings. Funeral Party returned on board.
Memorial at All Saint’s Church, Jakarta, Indonesia commemorating Lieutenant William Barrett HEIC d. 1814
Location
All Saint's Church, Jakarta, Indonesia, Rest of the World
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAM BARRETT, ESQRE. / FORMERLY A LIEUTENANT IN / THE HONBELE (SIC) COMPANYS MARINE / AND LATELY IMPT & EXPT WARE HOUSE KEEPER AT BATAVIA / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIVE [SIC] ON THE 8TH SEPT / 1814 / AGED 34 YEARS. / O! HOW UNCERTAIN ARE THE DAYS OF MEN / CERTAIN TO DIE BUT YET UNCERTAIN WHEN / AN INSTANCE HERE YOU HAVE BEFORE YOUR EYES / HOW SOON THE HELTHIEST (SIC) MAN'S CUT DOWN DIES / AT MORN I ROSE IN HELTH (SIC) AND IN MY BLOOM / AND ERE THE SUN WAS SET MY GLASS HAD RUN / READER REFLECT PREPARE TO FOLLOW ME / FOR NEXT GRAVE THAT'S MADE MAY BE / FOR THEE'
Details
People
Barrett, William Age: 35 Date of Death: 8/9/1814 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant HEIC Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Memorial at St Clement’s Church, Ipswich, Suffolk commemorating Captain Thomas Ward, RN d. 1773
Location
St Clement's Church, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'In memory of / THOMAS WARD Esq / late a Captain / in his Majesty’s / Royal Navy / Died 19h. Jany. 1773 / Aged 59 years. / And of / Rebecca his wife / who died 10h. May 1797 / aged 85 years'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: Chancel South Aisle Materials: Marble
People
Ward, Thomas Age: 59 Date of Death: 19/1/1773 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: British Library: Add.119093 ff.202 Davy's Church Notes. Recorder: Mrs F. Keymer 1988; Pippa Lacey
Wall tablet in St Breock, Cornwall dedicated to Lieutenant Montague Molesworth RN d. 1844
Location
St Breock's church, St Breock, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / MONTAGUE TREBY MOLESWORTH / A LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY / AND SECOND SON OF THE / REVEREND WILLIAM MOLESWORTH / RECTOR OF THIS PARISH / AND ALSO OF / JAMES JACOBS / JAMES HARDIMAN / MURDOCH MCDONALD / THOMAS BROWN / HYDE M. BROWN / RICHARD HILL / AND MICHAEL WHITE / SEAMEN OF HMS CLEOPATRA / WHO WHILE IN THE EXECUTION OF THEIR DUTY / WERE BARBAROUSLY KILLED IN AN AFFRAY WITH THE / NATIVES OF THE WESTERN COAST OF MADAGASCAR / MARCH 23 1844 / THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THEIR SHIPMATES / AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM FOR THEIR CHARACTERS / AND REGRET FOR THEIR MELANCHOLY FATE.'
Details
Description: Inscription tablet in gothic architectural surround.
Type: Wall tablet Position: Interior, North wall Materials: Stone Vessel: HMS Cleopatra
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Africa
People
Brown, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Rating Organisation: Royal Navy Brown, Hyde M. Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Rating Organisation: Royal Navy Hardiman, James Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Rating Organisation: Royal Navy Hill, Richard Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Rating Organisation: Royal Navy Jacobs, James Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Rating Organisation: Royal Navy MacDonald, Murdoch Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Rating Organisation: Royal Navy Molesworth, Montague Treby Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy White, Michael Age: Date of Death: 23/3/1844 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Rating Organisation:
Extra
Recorder: Devon and Cornwall Branch, Western Front Association
Memorial wall tablet in St Andrew’s Church, Ashburton, Devon commemorating John Knowles RN d. 1841
Location
St Andrew's Church, Ashburton, Devon, England
Transcript
'To the Memory of / John Knowles Esqre F.R.S. / Corresponding Member / of the Philosphical Society of Rotterdam / and for some Years Secretary / to the Surveyors of the / Royal Navy, / who was born in the Parish of St Pauls / Deptford, Kent, / the xxivth March mdcclxxxi and died in this Parish / the xxlst July mdcccxxxxi. / Also Samuel Posgate Knowles, Brother of the above, / who died the xxxth January mdccclxvii, / Aged lxxiv Years.'
Details
Description: Wall tablet in Gothic Revival frame. The inscription surrounded by a moulding which rises up to form an ogival canopy with crockets and finial, within which is tracery of a cinqfoil between two trefoils. There is an egg and tongue frieze below the inscription, below which are four square paterae with the Knowles arms in the centre. Type: Wall tablet Position: South Aisle Materials: Stone
People
Knowles, John Age: 61 Date of Death: 21/7/1841 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Secretary to the Surveyors of the Royal Navy Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSSIER Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Headstone at Maritime Museum, Vittoria, Malta commemorating James Hunter d. 1841
Location
Maritime Museum, Vittoria, Malta, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory / of / James Hunter of Stockton / who died on a passage from / the Levant bound for England / on board the brig John Grey / of Stockton in August 1841 / aged 15 years.'
Details
Description: Headstone Type: Gravestone Vessel: John Grey
People
Hunter, John Age: 15 Date of Death: 8/1841 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
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