Memorial: M5189

Gravestone at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, Lincolnshire commemorating Captain Charles Leopold Cust RN d. 1931

Location

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, Lincolnshire, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / CHARLES LEOPOLD CUST / FOR THIRTY NINE YEARS / THE DEVOTED SERVANT AND TRUSTED FRIEND / OF HIS SOVEREIGN / BORN FEBY 27 1864 DIED JANY 19 1931 / FEARLESS SIMPLE AND GENEROUS / HIS LOYALTY AND SINCERITY WERE / OF A QUALITY THAT IS GIVEN TO FEW / IN HS UNITY OF PURPOSE HE WAS / PERHAPS UNAWARE OF THE WIDE / AFFECTION WHICH HE INSPIRED / HE RESTS SECURE / IN THE KEEPING OF GOD'[other side] 'MDCCCLXIV MDCCCCXXXI' [motto] 'ESSE QUAM VIDERI', 'THIRD AND LAST BARON OF LEASOWE / IN THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL / VICTORIAN ORDER EQUERRY IN WAITING / TO HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FIFTH / A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY'

Details

Description: Inscribed on both sides and carved with a shield of arms and a crest.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Stone

People

Cust, Charles Leonard
Age:
Date of Death: 19/1/1931
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters