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 Edward William French (Sapper)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Edward William
Surnames: French
Date of Birth: 01/01/1921
Date of Death: 21/01/1942
Age at Death Years: 20
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Sapper
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 C1/C2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 155
Grave Description: Small upright stone with stone surrounds and kerbs, open book and flower vase in middle.
Grave Condition Description: Lichen spots and a bit overgrown
Other Information: Also interred in this plot, James Cass (1886), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 6943

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CHARLES WILLIAM
BELOVED HUSBAND OF ELLEN FRENCH
WHO PASSED AWAY 21ST MAR 1952
AGED 66 YEARS

ALSO EDWARD WILLIAM
BELOVED SON OF ABOVE
DIED ACTIVE SERVICE IN N. AFRICA
21ST JANUARY 1942
AGED 20 YEARS

Open Book
ALSO OF
HIS DEAR WIFE
ELLEN FRENCH
AND A DEVOTED MOTHER
9TH MAY 1960
AGED 67 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
E French July 09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
E French July 09
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Missing.
''Reference from the IW and General Registrars birth records, and the Island at War report from the IW County Press.''

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