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Ryde Cemetery

Mr George Harvey Turner (Brigadier General)

Title: Mr
Forenames: George Harvey
Surnames: Turner
Date of Birth: 26/07/1861
Date of Death: 25/10/1929
Burial Date: 29/10/1929
Age at Death Years: 68
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Brigadier General
Map Reference Number: RSHG 016 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plots 121 & 122
Grave Description: Double plot surrounded by kerbstones, large tapered cross with ringed top, raised on double tiered plinth.

Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: North kerb is broken, the ringed top of the cross is broken off and lying on the ground at back of grave.

Other Information: Burial date added, source: Bereavement Services records

Old Website Grave ID: 3934

Inscription:

Top plinth - East facing
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM FREDERICK JOHN TURNER
L.L.B, MRCP
DIED MAY 26TH 1894 AGED 64

ALSO VIOLET KATHLEEN AGED 16 DAYS,
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
AND MARY ELIZABETH KATHERINE, HIS WIFE
"GOD IS LOVE"

Bottom plinth
ALSO OF MARY ELIZABETH KATHERINE
WIFE OF THE ABOVE NAMED
WILLIAM FREDERICK JOHN TURNER
WHO DIED AT BOXMOOR, HERTS
THE 22ND JANUARY 1904 AGED 69

Top plinth -North facing
ALSO
TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF
GEORGE HARVEY TURNER
BRIG. GENERAL INDIAN ARMY
BORN AUGUST 26TH 1861
DIED OCTOBER 25TH 1929

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Turner family plot August 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Turner family plot August 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Turner family plot August 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Turner family plot August 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Directory; Census; Death; Obituary.
''Reference from the White's directory, entry from the 1881 census, and the death notice and obituary from the IW Times.''

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