Monument at Boxgrove, Sussex commemorating Admiral Philip Nelson-Ward d. 1937.
Location
Church of St Mary and St Blaise, Boxgrove, Sussex, England
Transcript
'IN DEAR & / HONOURED MEMORY OF PHILIP NELSON-WARD ADMIRAL C.V.O. / YOUNGEST SON OF THE REV:HORATIO NELSON-WARD RECTOR OF RADSTOCK SOMERSET / GREAT GRANDSON OF ADMIRAL VISCOUNT NELSON. GENTLEMAN USHER TO H.M. KING GEORGE V / AFTER SERVING IN THE EGYPTIAN WAR OF 1882 THE CHINESE WAR OF 1900 AND THE / GREAT WAR OF 1914-18 AND AFTER BEING THE FIRST AT THE ADMIRALTY TO HOLD THE POST OF DIRECTOR OF NAVIGATION / HE DEDICATED THE LAST TEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE TO THE TASK OF IMPROVING THE WELFARE OF OFFICERS OF THE MERCHANT NAVY / BY WHOM HE WAS IN 1928 ELECTED FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE OFFICERS' (MERCHANT NAVY) FEDERATION A POSITION HE / FILLED WITH THE UTMOST DEVOTION UNTIL HIS DEATH ON 27TH JUNE 1937 ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS DEARLY BELOVED WIFE DOROTHY (ELDER DAU: OF THE HON PIERS MARCUS CAULFIELD WHO WAS KILLED AT BATH BY ENEMY ACTION / ON APRIL 27TH 1942) THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY DOROTHY HIS WIFE AND HIS BROTHER HUGH'
Details
Type: Monument
Position: Nave, south aisle
Materials: Stone, bronze
Artists: Cecil Thomas, R Waller
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Age:
Date of Death: 27/6/1937
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy