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 Henry William Oscar Weeks

Title: Mr
Forenames: Henry William Oscar
Surnames: Weeks
Date of Birth: 27/12/1888
Date of Death: 21/02/1955
Burial Date: 24/02/1955
Age at Death Years: 66
Map Reference Number: RSHG 049 A3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section K Plot 3915
Grave Description: Flat grave with stone kerbs and small integral headstone. Grave top covered with grey granite gravel and there is a flat cross shaped flower holder and a small square flower holder on the grave top.
Grave Condition Description: This grave was overgrown and was cleared by FORC on 5 April 2008
Other Information: Colin Weeks was a fireman who was killed at Cowes
Added birth and burial dates, source: Registrars, Newspaper and Burial records.
Old Website Grave ID: 5025

Inscription:

IN REMEMBRANCE
COLIN HENRY WEEKS N F S
KILLED ON DUTY 5TH MAY 1942
AGED 19 YEARS

"I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE"

AND OF
HENRY WILLIAM OSCAR WEEKS J P
WHO SERVED THIS BOROUGH AS MAYOR 1939 Š—– 1945
DIED 21ST FEBRUARY 1955
AGED 66 YEARS

Photographs:

Carol Strong
Springer & Weeks (April 2008)
Photographer: Carol Strong

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral.
''The obituary and funeral report from the IW County Press.''
PDF file: Letter from sister in 1944

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