Sunday, March 18, 2018

Pte Robert Rose died 1904

In Loving Memory of
No 5196 PTE ROBERT ROSE
THE ROYAL DRAGOONS
WHO DIED AT LUCKNOW
ON THE 5TH MAY 1904

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GONE FROM US BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
NEVER SHALL THY MEMORY FADE
SWEETEST THOUGHTS SHALL EVER LINGER
AROUND THE SPOT WHERE THOU ART LAID
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ERECTED BY HIS COMRADES
**(Photo Fibis.org)
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After receiving the death certificate I had
this grave in mind while I photographed
the other graves which are all on this blog,
but failed to find it. There were several headstones,
all in good condition, that had been deliberately
uprooted, lying half buried in the mud. I later discovered
that the same graves were being reconstructed
as per the CWGC's plan for graves worldwide.

 Strange really, considering the fact that all these graves
had uniform headstones that were in perfectly
good condition! The CWGC should have concentrated
on the graves that had actually started crumbling.
The same was done in a Naini Tal cemetery!
Sometime back Dick Fanthome had left a comment

in answer to a question I had posed. I cannot recall
what it was


Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Ann Bremner died 1869

SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
ANN BREMNER
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
SERGEANT W. ROBB
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT NYNEE TAL
ON THE 3RD DAY OF JUNE 1869
AGED 25 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS
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ALSO OF
DAVID
WHO DIED AT MEEAN MEER ON THE 17TH
DECEMBER 1866
AGED 1 YEAR AND 9 MONTHS
(Mean Meer -- former name of the
Lahore Cantonment)

Friday, March 2, 2018

George Bowen Petter 1849--1905

IN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY
OF
GEORGE BOWEN PETTER
ELDEST SON OF
GEORGE EDWARD PETTER
BORN IN LONDON 28TH SEPTEMBER 1849
DIED AT NAINITAL  30TH APRIL 1905
(Kaladhungi Road Cemetery, Nainital)

Monday, January 15, 2018

Godfrey Vernon Toussaint died ***

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
GODFREY VERNON
BELOVED INFANT SON OF
BOB AND MAUDE TOUSSAINT
DIED ****
(Holy Trinity Church, Sri Lanka)

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Archibald MacPhee MacNeill 1883 -- 1949

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
ARCHIBALD MACPHEE MACNEILL
OF CLARENDON ESTATE, NANU OYA
DIED, 18TH OCTOBER 1949
BORN 29TH MAY 1883
ISLE-OF-COLONSAY ARGYLLSHIRE
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(Holy Trinity Church, Sri Lanka
Pic: Brian Fernandez of Devlali,
Maha., India, who visited
that Sri Lanka Dec 2017)

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Sybil Shelley died 1906, Cecil William Charles Shelley, killed in 1915

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
SYBIL
WIFE OF CECIL SHELLEY
DIED 30TH JULY 1906
AGED 26 (?)
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IN MEMORY
OF
CECIL WILLIAM CHARLES SHELLEY
KILLED IN ACTION
HOHENZOLLERN REDOUBT, FRANCE
OCTOBER 17TH 1915
AGED 42 YEARS
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(Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya,
Sri Lanka)