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 Francis Alick Heapey (Chief Mechanic)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Francis Alick
Surnames: Heapey
Date of Death: 15/05/1945
Burial Date: 18/05/1945
Age at Death Years: 59
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Chief Mechanic
Map Reference Number: RSHG 012 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section S Plot 2726
Grave Description: Stone scroll and stone kerb with sedum covered top. Grey flower holder marked IN LOVING MEMORY
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: P/KX 94019 H.M.S. Victory II Royal Navy. Additional information provided by Jeremy Rolf, Francis Heapey's grandson in March 2009: One of his ships, HMS Cairo is the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear this name. She was sunk by an Italian submarine in the Meditteranian in 1942. Francis Heapey died of cancer in Haslar Royal Navy hospital, Gosport. His wife emigrated to Australia in1968.
Burial date added. Also interred in this plot Thomas Oberman (1868), source: Bereavement Services records.
Old Website Grave ID: 621

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
FRANCES HAMILTON
DIED OCTOBER 20TH 1933
AGED 76 YEARS

ALSO OF HER SON IN LAW
FRANCIS ALICK HEAPEY
ROYAL NAVY
DIED MAY 15TH 1945
AGED 59 YEARS

AND OF HER HUSBAND
COLIN NORMAN HAMILTON
DIED MARCH 2ND 1953
AGED 97

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
F A Heapey March 2009
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
F A Heapey March 2009
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
F A Heapey February 2004
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Funeral.
''The funeral report from the IW County Press.''

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