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All Saints' Church, Wouldham, Kent, England

Memorial at All Saints’ Church, Wouldham, Kent commemorating Walter Burke, Purser RN d. 1815

Location

All Saints' Church, Wouldham, Kent, England

Transcript

‘Sacred / to the memory of / Walter Burke / Esq of this Parish / who died on the 12th September 1815 / in the / 70th year of his age / He was purser on his / Majesty's ship Victory / in the glorious Battle of Trafalgar and in / his arms the immortal / Nelson died'

Details

Type: Grave
Position: By path
Vessel: HMS ‘Victory'

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Burke, Walter
Age: 69
Date of Death: 12/9/1815
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Purser RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Graham Dean and Keith Evans 'Nelson's Heroes' (Norwich, 1994) p. 37.
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Parish church, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

Memorial at Aberystwyth commemorating Richard Clayton d. 1853

Location

Parish church, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

Transcript

'Richard Clayton, master mariner who was lost near PEN-GUGERUTH, Jany 20th 1853 aged 35 years'

Details

People

Clayton, Richard
Age: 35
Date of Death: 20/1/1853
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: William Donnan 1974
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Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire, England

Memorial in Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire, commemorating those who died during the 1878-1882 commission of  HMS ‘Boadicea’

Location

Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire, England

Transcript

‘IN MEMORY OF THE / OFFICERS, SEAMEN, MARINES, KROOMEN OF / HMS BOADICEA / COMMODORE SIR FW RICHARDS, KCB / WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION OR DIED OF WOUNDS / DISEASE OR ACCIDENT DURING HER COMMISSION / ON THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE / AND WEST COAST OF AFRICA STATION / 1878 – 1882 / ERECTED BY THEIR SHIPMATES' [lists of names on other three faces]

Details

Description: Obelisk on pedestal within railings.
Type: Obelisk
Materials: Portland stone and granite
Vessel: HMS Boadicea

Event

First Boer War

Event Date

1880 - 1881

Event Category

19th century conflicts in Africa

Extra

Notes: HMS 'Boadicea' 16 gun iron steam corvette. Commemorates commission on West Coast of Africa 1878/82 also casualties of Naval Brigade at Majuba Hills 2/28/1881. 11 Kroomen who died of smallpox Jan/Feb 1879 and two men who fell from aloft.
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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Charles Garthorne Burrell d. 1838

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Charles Garthorne Burrell shipowner North Shields died 8 March 1838 at Warrenpoint Ireland age 62'

Details

People

Burrell, Charles Garthorne
Age: 62
Date of Death: 8/3/1838
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Ship owner
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 7, p. 379. This cemetery was sited in an old quarry. It has now largely been cleared.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
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St Mary's Church, Ascension Island

Wall tablet in St Mary’s Church, Ascension Island to men of the Royal Marine Light Infantry – Henry Kemp d. 1885, William Roden  and Richard Cornell d. 1888

Location

St Mary's Church, Ascension Island

Transcript

'TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND THE MEMORY OF / HENRY B. KEMP, R.M.L.I. / WHO WAS KILLED ON JULY 8th 1885, WHILE BLASTING NEAR LONG BEACH / ALSO OF / WILLIAM RODEN R.M.L.I. / WHO DIED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL, ASCENSION ON FEB 8th 1888 / FROM INJURIES RECEIVED WHILE BLASTING IN GARRISON / ALSO OF / RICHARD A. CORNELL R.M.L.I. / WHO WAS DROWNED IN CRYSTAL BAY, ON NOV. 24TH 1888 / R.I.P. / THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ISLAND'

Details

Description: The inscription tablet in the form of a scroll secured by a pin with curling edges.
Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Marble

People

Cornell, Richard A.
Age:
Date of Death: 24/11/1888
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry
Kemp, Henry B.
Age:
Date of Death: 8/7/1885
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry
Roden, William
Age:
Date of Death: 8/2/1888
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry

Extra

Recorder: Jeff Cant 1997
Photographer: Colette Bassford
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St Peter's Church, Tichfield, Hampshire, England

Wall monument in St Peter’s Church, Tichfield, Hampshire commemorating David Ramsay Karr d. 1794

Location

St Peter's Church, Tichfield, Hampshire, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the Memory / of DAVID RAMSAY KARR / of Kippilaw, in the County of Roxburgh, Esq: / Upwards of fifty Years / Surgeon in HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY, / thirty of which he served as / Surgeon of the Dock-Yard at Portsmouth; / and departed this Life, / universally regretted by his Friends, / on the 27th November 1794, / aged 72 Years, / He lies buried here / as does his wife MARY, / and her sister SUSANNA BOURYEAU, / both Daughters of ZACHARIAH BOURYEAU, / of Blyborough in the County of Lincoln; Esq: / The former died the 30th December 1784 aged 51; / And the latter the 17th February 1785 aged 35'

Details

Description: Urn and obelisk above inscription tablet, arms below.
Type: Wall monument
Position: Chancel north wall
Materials: Black and white marble
Artists: Joseph Nollekens

People

Karr, David Ramsay
Age:
Date of Death: 27/11/1794
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Surgeon RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER.
Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
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St Matthias's Church, Poplar, London, England

Wall tablet in St Matthias’s Church, Poplar, London, commemoratingJohn Perry d. 1840

Location

St Matthias's Church, Poplar, London, England

Transcript

'To the memory of John Perry Esq. of Moor Hall, Harlow in the County of Essex, formerly of Blackwall who died Nov. 7th 1840 in the 67th year of his age. / If private worth combined with public zeal / Demand a tribute of the love we feel / If honour truth and probity conspire / To form examples which the just admire / This frail memorial may awhile suspend / The swift oblivion that succeeds our end / Preserve some record for the stranger's eye / Of generous virtues that should never die / Of active merit mixed with ardent mind / Which made his own the good of human kind / Diffus'd around the bounty Heaven bestows / And sooth'd the sharpness of malignant woes / The poor attest it whom he cloth'd and fed / The sick he nourished in their dying bed / The friends he succour'd and the youth he reared / To Christian hope by Christian promise cheer'd / In deeds like this revere his honor'd name / In Brunswick dock his arduous skill proclaim / That bold achievement of his useful toil / Which blessed with consequence his native soil / First taught this humble spot with wealth to smile / And rise emporium of the British isle / May such benevolence from earth remov'd / Await its destiny from God he lov'd / Celestial grace and mercy guard his tomb / And endless glory seal his final doom / PARENTIBUS CARISSIMUS FILLI MOERENTES POSUERUNT'

Details

Description: Pediment with the sun's rays and the eye of God; swags on either side. Shield of arms below.
Type: Wall tablet

People

Perry, John
Age: 66
Date of Death: 7/11/1840
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Shipbuilder?
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Also his wife Elizabeth and family. Photographs NMR BB76/5520.
Recorder: Timothy Wilson
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St Andrew's Church, Whitestaunton, Somerset, England

Wall tablet at St Andrew’s Church, Whitestaunton, Somerset commemorating Vice-Admiral George Napier Tomlin d. 1947

Location

St Andrew's Church, Whitestaunton, Somerset, England

Transcript

'In proud and ever loving / memory of / Vice Admiral / G. Napier Tomlin / C.M.G., M.V.O: / of Nash Hill Cottage, / Whitestaunton, Somerset. / Who passed away on / 5th May, 1947'

Details

Description: An oval tablet with a naval crown above, a crest and motto below.
Type: Wall tablet

People

Tomlin, George Napier
Age:
Date of Death: 5/5/1947
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Esme Greenslade 1990
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Cemetery, Ilha da Mocambique, Mozambique, Rest of the World

Memorial at Ilha da Mocambique, Mozambique commemorating Commander James Richard Dacres RN and Lieutenant George Lock RN both d. 1848

Location

Cemetery, Ilha da Mocambique, Mozambique, Rest of the World

Transcript

'BENEATH THIS STONE / in hopes of blessed Resurrection / Are the remains of Commander JAMES RICHD. DACRES / of H B M S NIMROD / Son of Vice Admiral Dacres He died the 18th Feb. 1848 from an / attack of Mozambique fever Aged 37 / He was beloved whilst living & / deeply regretted. / In the same grave are deposited / the remains of / Lieut. GEORGE LOCK / of HMS Nimrod / son of John Lock Esq of Morden Park / who died the same day of the same fever / Aged 24'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Vessel: HMS Nimrod

People

Dacres, James Richard
Age: 38
Date of Death: 18/2/1848
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Lock, George
Age: 24
Date of Death: 18/2/1848
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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St Andrew's Church, Hove, East Sussex, England

Memorial in St Andrew’s Church, Hove, East Sussex commemorating  Charles Hall Chambers RN d. 1879

Location

St Andrew's Church, Hove, East Sussex, England

Transcript

'To the memory of Charles Hall Chambers. Staff Surgeon Royal Navy. Died at Brighton May 3 1879 age 51 years'

Details

People

Chambers, Charles Hall
Age: 51
Date of Death: 3/5/1879
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Staff Surgeon RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: C. Flintham
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