Memorial in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London commemorating Rear Admiral Charles Holmes RN d. 1761
Location
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES HOLMES ESQ / REAR ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE. HE DIED THE XXIST / OF NOVEMBER MDCCLXI COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS / MAJESTY'S FLEET STATION'D AT JAMAICA AGE L. / ERECTED BY HIS GRATEFUL NEECES [SIC] MARY STANWIX / AND LUCRETIA SOWLE'
Details
Description: In front of a pyramid shaped back, a full-length figure of Holmes in Roman dress, leaning on a gun draped with an ensign. Type: Monument Position: North ambulatory Materials: Marble Artists: Joseph Wilton
People
Holmes, Charles Age: 50 Date of Death: 21/11/1761 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral of the White Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1982 Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India commemorating Lieutenant Thomas Payne RN, d. 1790
Location
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World
Transcript
'To the Memory of / Thomas Payne, Esq. / First Lieut. of his Majesty's Ship 'Phoenix' / who died the 13th September 1790 / aged 25 years. / In gratitude of whose memory and as a small testimony of their unutterable affection / this Monument is erected by the desire of his / faithful shipmates, who sincerely lament the loss of their departed friend.'
Details
Vessel: HMS Phoenix
People
Payne, Thomas Age: 25 Date of Death: 13/9/1790 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.77
Memorial in St James’s Church, Southwick, Hampshire commemorating Rear-Admiral Frederick Buckley d. 1952
Location
St James's Church, Southwick, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / REAR ADMIRAL / FREDERICK ARTHUR BUCKLEY, C.B. / DIED 31ST MAY 1952 / WHO WAS MUCH BELOVED / BY THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHWICK / HE LIVED FOR HIS COUNTRY / HIS SERVICE AND HIS FRIENDS / ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOUTHWICK EX SERVICE MEN'S CLUB. NOVEMBER 8TH 1953'
Details
Type: Plaque Position: Nave Materials: Brass
People
Buckley, Frederick Arthur Age: Date of Death: 31/5/1952 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet at York Minster commemorating Lieutenant Theophilus Garencieres RN d. 1797
Location
York Minster, York, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'THIS MONUMENT an affectionate Heart-felt tribute to parental tenderness / was erected by Sarah Garencieres and her Sister / Elizabeth Sampson to perpetuate the Memory of / their beloved Parents. / THEOPHILUS DAVYE GARENCIERES ESQr / late ALDERMAN of this CITY, who served the Office / of LORD MAYOR in the Year 1796 and departed this / Life March 13 1803 in the 61st Year of his Age; / and PRUDENCE ELIZABETH GARENCIERES / his Wife, who died Sepr.29th 1801 Aged 59. / Their Younger Son Iohn Wade GARENCIERES / died May 16th 1787 Aged 13. / Their Elder Son THEOPHILUS GARENCIERES / a Lieutenant on board His Majesty`s Ship the Queen / died at St Domingo, of the Yellow Fever, on the 10th of / Jany. 1797 in his 31st Year, and was buried there with / Military honors.'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: interior Materials: White marble Vessel: HMS 'Queen'
People
Garencieres, Theophilus Age: 31 Date of Death: 10/1/1797 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno commemorating Samuel Randall d. 1674
Location
Old English Cemetery, Via Giuseppe Verdi, Livorno, Italy, Rest of the World
Transcript
'D.O.M. / Samuel Randall Anglus / avidus gloriae Fideitatis [sic] Amator / Moribus integerrimus Navis Dux Strenuus / Dum as orientis Pergeret Regeones [sic] / Maris Saevitiam expertus / In Undis demersus Suum clausit diem / et ejus ossa Ex Aequorum Voracitate Erepta / hoc in Tumulo iacent / Malorum Novissimum Incurrit / die XXIX Ja/nuari Ao MDCLXXIV ab incarnat'ne / aetatis quidem suae XXXXIV' [D.O.M. Samuel Randall Englishman, eager for glory, one who loved loyalty, of upright behaviour, a brave naval commander. While travelling towards the lands of Asia, being greatly experienced in the perils of the sea, he ended his days swallowed by the waves, and his bones, saved from the voracity of the sea, lie in this grave. He incurred the greatest of evils on 29th January 1674 AD from the incarnation of Our Saviour at the exact age of 44.]
Details
Event
1672-1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
People
Randall, Samuel Age: 44 Date of Death: 19/1/1674 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Notes: Translation Silvia Bozzato. Bibliography: G.G. Milner-Gibson Cullum; Francis Campbell MaCauley 'The inscriptions in the old British cemetery of Leghorn' (Leghorn, 1906) p.73.
Wall plaque at Chatham Historical Society Museum, Chatham, Kent commemorating those officers and men of the Royal Marines who lost their lives in the Egypt Campaign 1882 – 1889
Location
Chatham Historical Society Museum, Chatham, Kent, England
Transcript
'FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH / TO THE MEMORY / of the / OFFICERS AND MEN / of the / ROYAL MARINES / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES BEFORE THE ENEMY OR DIED OF WOUNDS / DURING THE CAMPAIGNS IN EGYPT / THE SOUDAN / AND / THE NILE MARCH FOR THE RELIEF OF KHARTOUM / 1882+1885' [Approx] 'MAJOR H.H. STRONG / CAPTAIN J.C. WARDELL / SERGEANT E.A. JARVIS / J. MITCHELL / CORPORAL M. CAREY / DRUMMER W. SHIRE / GUNNER S. MCCLARNE / J. BROAD / J. WANN / F. HALL / F. LOVATT / R. CRADDOCK / C. BAKER / J. LEICESTER / F. COX / E. NEWTON / J. ADAMS / T. COLSTON / J. JENKINS / T. TUSTIN / PRIVATE J. OWEN / J. SPIERS / T. JONES/ C.W. CRAWFORD / W. BUNN / A. CASTLE / H. ELLIS / W. WALTERS / R. LUCKING / E.W. ARNOLD / W. MITCHELL / E. MEADE / W. BUTCHER / A. SMITH/ E. HOCKEY / E. EASTELL / C. HUTCHINGS / W. WILLCOCKS / W. STANTON / W. WILLOX / W. WILSON / R. MURRAY / E.F. BATHE / H. BELDHAM / J.O. HALL / A.F. BAXTER / H. RUTTER / G. DAY / W. JENKINS / J. WARREN / W. MACANN / J. ANDERSON / W. HOLDER / A.G. GILES / E. LOCK / A. HOLLAND'
Details
Description: Columns flanking inscription
Type: Wall plaque Materials: Brass
Event
Egypt Campaign
Event Date
1882-9
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Africa
People
Adams, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Anderson, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Arnold, E. W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Baker, C. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Bathe, E. F. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/9/1882 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Baxter, A. F. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Beldham, H. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/9/1882 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Broad, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Bunn, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Butcher, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/3/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Carey, M. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 19/1/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Corporal RM Organisation: Royal Marines Castle, A. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/9/1882 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Colston, T. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Cox, F. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Craddock, R. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Crawford, C. W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Day, G. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Eastell, E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/3/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Ellis, H. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/9/1882 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Giles, A. G. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/3/1884 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Hall, J. O. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Hall, F. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Hockey, E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/3/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Holder, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Holland, A. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 19/1/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Hutchings, C. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/3/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Jarvis, E. A. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Sergeant RM Organisation: Royal Marines Jenkins, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Jenkins, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Jones, T. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Leicester, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Lock, E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/3/1884 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Lovatt, F. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Lucking, R. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines McCann, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines McClarne, S. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Meade, E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Mitchell, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Murray, R. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/9/1882 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Newton, E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Owen, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Rutter, H. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Shire, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1885 Cause of Death: War casualty wounded at Abu Kru Rank / Occupation: Drummer RM Organisation: Royal Marines Smith, A. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/3/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Spiers, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Stanton, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/3/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Strong, H. H. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Major RM Organisation: Royal Marines Tustin, T. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/3/1884 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Walters, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Wann, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Gunner RM Organisation: Royal Marines Wardell, J. C. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/9/1882 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RM Organisation: Royal Marines Warren, J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Willcocks, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1882-85 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Willox, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/3/1885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Wilson, W. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 22/31885 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines
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Notes: Formerly in the Naval Chapel at Sheerness.
Bibliography: Mark A. Reid 'Royal Navy and Royal Marine Casualties 1882-1885', 'Orders and Medals Research Society' vol. 35, p. 231 (Summer 1996) (illustration).
Memorial window in St Oswald’s Church, Filey dedicated to fishermen of Filey lost at sea 1879-1896
Location
St Oswald's Church, Filey, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'"And he said unto them Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men" / To the Glory of God / and in memory of Thomas Robert / Cammish churchwarden of this parish / and of the following fishermen of / Filey who have perished. / 1879 Frank Baxter / 1880 / Ross Jenkinson, John Crompton, James / Wyvill, Richard / Richardson Jr: Robert Edmond, Thomas / Cowling, John Shippy, William Mason, / George Cammish, Thomas Holmes, John / Watkinson, William Wiseman, John Bayes, / also / Francis Haxby (son of Frank), / and seven strangers / 1883 / Joseph Winship, George Scotter, Rickman Skelton / Horatio Wilkinson, Wrightson Pearson, Francis/Haxby (son of Matthew,) Wm: Sayers, Chas Hunter, / 1891 / Robert Watkinson / 1892 Edward Ross Jenkinson / George Bean, John Cammish, Richd Cammish /1893, Thomas Willis / 1895 / Thomas Johnson, Francis Johnson / William Johnson, Matthew Cappleman / Robert Edmond, Francis Cammish. / 1896 Thomas George Johnson, / Robert Skelton, George Jenkinson. / "And I saw the dead small and great / stand before God. And the sea gave up / the dead which were in it." Rev 12-13'
Details
Description: The window depicts the call of Simon, Peter and Andrew. Type: Window Position: South aisle of nave Materials: Stained glass Artists: H. Bryans
People
Baxter, Frank Age: Date of Death: 1879 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Bayes, John Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Bean, George Age: Date of Death: 1892 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cammish, John Age: Date of Death: 1892 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cammish, Richard Age: Date of Death: 1892 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cammish, George Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cammish, Francis Age: Date of Death: 1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cappleman, Matthew Age: Date of Death: 1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cowling, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Crompton, John Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Edmond, Robert Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Edmond, Robert Age: Date of Death: 1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Haxby, Francis Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Haxby, Francis Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Holmes, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Hunter, Charles Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, Edward Ross Age: Date of Death: 1892 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, Ross Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, George Age: Date of Death: 1896 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Johnson, Thomas George Age: Date of Death: 1896 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Johnson, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Johnson, Francis Age: Date of Death: 1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Johnson, William Age: Date of Death: 1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Mason, William Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Pearson, Wrightson Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Richardson, Richard Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Sayers, William Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Scotter, George Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Shippy, John Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Skelton, Rickman Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Skelton, Robert Age: Date of Death: 1896 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Watkinson, Robert Age: Date of Death: 1891 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Watkinson, John Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Wilkinson, Horatio Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Willis, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Winship, Joseph Age: Date of Death: 1883 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Wiseman, William Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Wyvill, James Age: Date of Death: 1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
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Notes: DOSSIER. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS) Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Memorial in St Cuthbert’s Burial Ground, Edinburgh commemorating Commander Nisbet Glen RN d. 1824 and Alexander Glen RN d. 1842
Location
St Cuthbert's Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland
Transcript
'This stone was erected by the surviving members of the family in affectionate remembrance of Nisbet Glen, Commander Royal Navy (fourth son of the Reverend Alexander Glen of Dirleton East Lothian) who was born in 1780 and died in 1824; of his spouse Agnes Cunningham, second daughter of William Cunningham jeweller in Edinburgh, who was born in 1782, and died in 1855, and of their children. Alexander Glen, Mate Royal Navy who was born in 1817 and died at Malta in 1842 and is there interred...'
Details
People
Glen, Nisbet Age: Date of Death: 1824 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy Glen, Alexander Age: Date of Death: 1842 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Mate RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Recorder: Alex Chatwin
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
