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Friday 2 January 2015

Tombstones - soldiers

"The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law"
Charles M. Scanlan
1909
Project Gutenburg





423.Tombstones, Soldiers.—The United States will erect tombstones at the graves of soldiers who served in the Civil War, in all cemeteries where their graves are unmarked. Wherever the United States has jurisdiction over cemeteries, it has made it a criminal offense punishable by fine or imprisonment to deface a tombstone.757
[pg 223]
424. Indigent Soldiers, Tombstones.—Most of the States have statutes providing for the burial of indigent soldiers and for putting tombstones at their graves. The attention of relatives of deceased soldiers should be called to it.

Tuesday 29 April 2014

Charles McCorrie VC

 
Charles McCorrie VC
Msida Bastion Cemetery - Malta

"He was approx. 25 years old, and a Private in the 57th Regiment (later Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)), British Army, during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 23 June 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea, Private McCorrie threw over the parapet a live shell which had been thrown from the enemy's battery.
He died in Malta on 8 April 1857"

Monday 14 October 2013

Heyhoe

John Heyhoe
Died 5 may 1889
© Godric Godricson
William Heyhoe
Died 10 May 1889
© Godric Godricson

Saturday 12 October 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

Kalkara

Miss Lily A, Jackson
Died 21 October 1918
© Godric Godricson
Raymond Henery Goddard
Died 7 February 1924
© Godric Godricson

Wednesday 13 March 2013

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Tuesday 5 February 2013

Monday 4 February 2013

Thursday 11 October 2012

Thursday 4 October 2012

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Richard Scales Died 21st January 1918

Richard Scales
Died 21st January 1918
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

© Godric Godricson