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 Frank Graham Scarth (Private)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Frank Graham
Surnames: Scarth
Date of Death: 08/09/1916
Age at Death Years: 33
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Private
Map Reference Number: RSHG 049 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section K Plot 3551
Grave Description: Triple plinth with fallen cross. Lead lettering. Surrounding plain kerbstones. Concrete slab cover with some grass & flora overgrowth.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Fallen cross at upper end of plot, cross broken in 3 pieces & piled in front of plinth. Plot deeply sunken on south side.

Inscription:

Top tier of plinth - west facing (gothic script)
IN EVER LOVING
REMEMBRANCE OF

Middle tier - west facing
THOMAS SCARTH,
DIED MARCH 2ND 1915, AGED 64.
ALSO OF HIS BELOVED WIFE
ALICE GRAHAM SCARTH,
DIED NOV. 13TH 1915, AGED 58.

Bottom tier - west facing
"I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE."

Top tier of plinth -south facing
ALSO OF
THEIR
ELDEST SON

Middle tier - south facing
FRANK GRAHAM SCARTH
KILLED IN ACTION
AT LE MOUQUET FARM,
COURCELETTE, FLANDERS
SEPT. 8TH 1916, AGED 33.

Middle tier of plinth - north facing
ALSO
THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER
ELSIE ALICE SCARTH,
DIED JULY 31ST 1935,
AGED 50 YEARS.

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
T, A, F & E Scarth Nov 2016
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
T, A, F & E Scarth (2) Nov 2016
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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