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 Hugh Arthur Smith (Bombadier)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Hugh Arthur
Surnames: Smith
Date of Death: 14/09/1946
Burial Date: 17/09/1946
Age at Death Years: 42
Grave Type: War Grave
Military Rank: Bombadier
Map Reference Number: RSHG 022 D1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section G/H Plot 18
Grave Description: Small white CWGC headstone
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: The inscription indicates that Hugh Arthur Smith served as Bombadier H A Scovell with the Royal Artillery. A Bombadier is the equivalent rank to a Corporal in other Regiments. The War Graves Commission record both names.

Also interred in this plot are the cremated remains of Maud Frances Gallop (1983), source: Bereavement Services records.
Old Website Grave ID: 1133

Inscription:

H A SMITH SERVED AS
743789 BOMBADIER
H A SCOVELL
ROYAL ARTILLERY
14TH SEPTEMBER 1946 AGE 42

GRANT HIM LORD
ETERNAL REST
WITH THE SPIRITS
OF THE BLEST

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
H Smith May 2004
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral.
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