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 David Thompson

Title: Mr
Forenames: David
Surnames: Thompson
Date of Death: 11/08/1914
Burial Date: 14/08/1914
Age at Death Years: 67
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 021 B1/C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section H Plot 1308a
Grave Description: Gothic style headstone with carving of leaves above the inscription.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Lichen growing on stone
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records

Although not mentioned on the memorial, also interred in this plot, Mary Jane Thompson (1924), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5242

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
MY DEAR HUSBAND
DAVID THOMPSON
WHO DIED
AUGUST 11TH 1914
"REST IN PEACE"

ALSO OF HIS YOUNGEST SON
FREDERICK
2ND BATT: AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE
KILLED IN ACTION AT GALLIPOLI
MAY 19TH 1915
AGED 34 YEARS
"IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
D & F Thompson May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
D & F Thompson May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Death; Inquest.
''Reference from the IW Registrars marriage records, entries from the 1881-1901 census, and the death notice and inquest report from the IW Observer. A fatal accident.''

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