Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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 Charles Dunsmure (Lieutenant Colonel)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Charles
Surnames: Dunsmure
Date of Death: 20/11/1888
Burial Date: 24/11/1888
Age at Death Years: 81
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Map Reference Number: RSHG 036 D3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 792
Grave Description: Upright plain cross on triple plinth, engraved lettering, surrounding kerbstones with metal double rope railings with six corner posts.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Uncovered and partly cleared amidst a heavy canopy of brambles and branches November 2018. Railings broken in places.
Other Information: First name completed, source Bereavement Services records.
Added burial date, source: Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 14120

Inscription:

East side - top plinth
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF

Middle plinth
LT. COL. C. DUNSMURE.
LATE 42ND ROYAL HIGHLANDERS THE BLACK WATCH
DIED 20TH NOVEMBER 1888 AGED 81
GOD IS LOVE

South side - top plinth
AND OF
EVELYN ALICE DUNSMURE
ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
LT. COL. DUNSMURE
DIED 10TH APRIL 1907

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
C & E Dunsmure November 2018
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
C & E Dunsmure November 2018
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
C & E Dunsmure November 2018
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: National Probate Calendar
PDF file: Obituary

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