Memorial at Church of St Mary Magdelene, Gillingham, Kent commemorating Michael Austin, RN Boatswain d. 1844 and George Daysh Austin, Assistant Surgeon RN d. 1836
Location
Church of St Mary Magdelene, Gillingham, Kent, England
Transcript
'Sacred / to the memory of / Thomas Fitzherbert Austin / son of Michael & Mary Ann Austin / who departed this life / 28 June 1825 / aged 14 years. / Also John William Rawlinson / son of / the Revd John Samuel Rawlinson decd / 21st August 1826, Aged 11 months and 13 days. / Jane Fitzherbert Austin / Daughter of the above / Michael and Mary Ann Austin / Died June 29th 1827 AET 18 / Mary Ann Austin / Mother of the above Thomas and Jane, / Died on the 10th December 1829 / Aged 51 years / Also of George Daysh Austin / Assistant Surgeon of H.M. Mary and member of / The Royal College of Surgeons, London / son of the above / Michael and Mary Austin, / who died 6th June 1836 aged 27 years / also of Mr Michael Austin / who died 1st June 1844, aged 72 years'
Details
Position: Churchyard Vessel: HMS Mary
People
Austin, Michael Age: 72 Date of Death: 1/6/1844 Cause of Death: Unknown / None Rank / Occupation: Boatswain Organisation: Royal Navy Austin, George Daysh Age: 27 Date of Death: 6/6/1836 Cause of Death: Unknown / None Rank / Occupation: Assistant Surgeon Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: Graham Dean and Keith Evans 'Nelson's Heroes' (Norwich, 1994) p. 23; Rear Adm J.A.L. Myers 'The rating's son who became an admiral', 'The Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society' vol. 39, pp. 268-9.
Window in Portsmouth Cathedral dedicated to Admiral Bertram Ramsay d.1945
Location
Cathedral of St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
[Left] 'IN MEMORY OF ADMIRAL / SIR BERTRAM RAMSEY / KILLED IN ACTION 1945 WHO / COMMANDED THE SEABOURNE FORCES / AT DUNKIRK 1940' [Right] 'AND NORMANDY 1944 / HERE ARE REMEMBERED / ALSO THOSE UNDER HIS / COMMAND WHO WERE KILLED / DURING THESE OPERATIONS'
Details
Type: Window Position: Lower windows of transept
Event Category
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Ramsay, Bertram Home Age: 61 Date of Death: 2/1/1945 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Born 1883. Commanded sea-bourne forces at Dunkirk 1940 and Normandy 1944. Buried at St German en Laye near Paris. He was killed in a fatal plane crash in 1945.
Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis, commemorating Captain Thomas Forshaw d. 1855
Location
Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Captain Thomas Forshaw drowned October 1855 with the upsetting of a boat whilst attempting to land off Lagos, West Coast of Africa age 51'
Details
People
Forshaw, Thomas Age: 51 Date of Death: 10/1855 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation:
Extra
Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 8, p. 685. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site. Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
Tomb at All Saints Church, Campton, Bedfordshire, commemorating John Osborne d. 1628, Commissioner of the Navy under James I
Location
All Saints Church, Campton, Bedfordshire, England
Details
Type: Chest-tomb Position: Chapel north of chancel Materials: Marble Date Erected: 1655 Artists: John Stone
People
Osborne, John Age: 79 Date of Death: 11/1628 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commissioner of the Navy Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Sir John Osborne, knight, son of Peter Osborne, Treasurer's Remembrancer of the Exchequer and Commissioner of the Navy under James I. Married Dorothy, eldest daughter of Richard Borlee of Elsingham Hall, Essex. Dorothy died May 1638 aged 76.
