Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Albert Ernest Cossins (Lance Corporal)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Albert Ernest
Surnames: Cossins
Date of Birth: 30/11/1873
Date of Death: 03/04/1916
Age at Death Years: 42
Grave Type: War Grave
Military Rank: Lance Corporal
Map Reference Number: RSHG 027 C2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section K Plot 1663
Grave Description: Commonwealth War Grave Commission headstone with white cube flower holder in front.
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Also interred in this plot Ann Legg (1870) source: Bereavement Services records.
Old Website Grave ID: 715

Inscription:

1889 L. CPL
A.E. COSSINS
8TH BN. HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
3RD APRIL 1916 AGE 42

AT REST

Flower Holder
ALSO HIS
DAUGHTER
ALICE
DIED
21ST DEC 1991
AGED 77

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A E Cossins
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Colin Hunt
A E Cossins (Mar 2018)
Photographer: Colin Hunt

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Marriage; Death.
''Entries from the 1891 and 1901 census, reference from the General Registrars marriage index and the death notice from the IW County Press.''
PDF file: Casualty.
''Casualty details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.''
PDF file: Family information supplied by Molly Cheverton, grandaughter, November 2006
''First World war service details, marriage and children''

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